The thing you need to know is that many of us have heard a lot of silly ideas and are familar with the cassic way they are presented. Most of us will not get pass the nasa cover up crap. I did enough research to see that it was not worth going on, just like i wouldn't keep researching bunyips.
Have you read the article you were quote mining.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...icy-cargo.html
how about wiki's article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfv%C3...in_cosmologies
even more damming is this link
http://www.plasmacosmology.net/myth.html a look on their links page shows the god father of the movement Velikovsky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velikovsky now tell me again why we should take this seriously?
Long time readers of the US mag Astronomy may remeber seeing these nut's ad in the back pages offer $10,000 who can prove their ideas false.