Comments on "A huge reservoir of ionized gas around the Milky Way:   accounting for the missing mass?" (2012 ApJL, 756, 8) and "The warm-hot   gaseous halo of the Milky Way" (arXiv1211.3137)
  The two papers referred to in the title, claiming the detection of a large-scale massive hot gaseous halo around the Galaxy, have generated a lot of confusion and unwarranted excitement (including public news coverage). However, the papers are seriously flawed in many aspects, including problematic analysis and assumptions, as well as mis-reading and mis-interpreting earlier studies, which are inconsistent with the claim. Here we show examples of such flaws. 
Q. Daniel Wang (UMass) and Yangsen Yao (University of Colorado)
astro-ph.GA