All properties of the quasars known by the author (quietness of the BAL quasars, Lyman forest, iron in the high-z quasars...) are explained supposing that the kernel of the quasar is surrounded by a halo containing an accretion disk and magnetic satellites (no dark matter or fast jet, no variation of the fine structure constant, no strange source of iron...). The key is taking into account the coherent light-matter interactions.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0208405,
title = {How the BAL quasars are quiet},
author = {Jacques Moret-Bailly},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0208405},
year = {2007}
}