Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth

Interesting.

They might not be.

The magnetic interaction between Jupiter and the Sun is stronger than between earth and the sun, so one might go looking for flux transfer events between Jupiter and the sun with a period of 43.2 minutes (the time it takes for light from the sun to reach Jupiter).

There is no cake, the cake is a lie!

It's very interesting physics, but not exactly magical. One can think of it as magnetic field lines connecting or disconnecting between the earth and the sun. Charged particles, like in the solar wind, follow this field lines, and so there's a lot of particles transferred. Additionally, the particles themselves are rotating, and 'lock in' magnetic flux, so they transport magnetic flux between the sun and the earth, too.

I think that the supposed lack of humility in science is because far too many of them have to deal with political attacks from people who don't understand basic science.

Completely agree. Maybe scientific research needs the equivalent of angel investors, or maybe just rich patrons, because investors tend to be impatient, etc. We need to go back to the days of great experimentalists like Rayleigh, Faraday, etc. The publish or perish way of working does not advance science most of the time.Scientists resort to all sorts of tricks to stay afloat. I remember reading somewhere that 80% of papers published in even reputed jounals like Physical Review Letters do not advance our understanding by a millimeter. It's wonderful to read stuff like this.