This isn't even really a "paper" -- it is "correspondence" -- a letter to the editor and as such is not peer reviewed and is basically the same as a similar let

This isn't even really a "paper" -- it is "correspondence" -- a letter to the editor and as such is not peer reviewed and is basically the same as a similar letter to a newspaper. People (and web sites) need to recognize that journals publish such letters as well as opinion pieces, neither of which are required to go through the same scrutiny as an actual paper.