Astronomer’s Dogma.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050523halleyborrelly.htm
“Though the popular theories have hardened into dogma and the scientific media present them as facts, the new discoveries challenge the popular assumptions. The metaphor of a “dirty snowball” does not fit what we know about comets in the space age. A vast library of data now contradicts the standard assumption of an electrically neutral comet in an electrically neutral solar system. It is no longer useful to ignore the electrical properties of plasma...
“electrically neutral solar system”...a la Newton. The same dogma V was up against.
To be sure; which reminds my, I haven't gotten my hands on a copy of WIC yet. Maybe I'll pick one up with my "stimulus" rebate ;^)