  The RIKEN data on the Coulomb Dissociation (CD) of 8B were shown to be in
good agreement with the Direct Capture (DC) data on the 7Be(p,g)8B reaction
(that were known at that time) of Filippone {\em et al.} Yet recently it was
claimed that the RIKEN2 CD data must be corrected in order to be reconciled
with the slope of DC data. Considering the (correct) so called scale
independent b-slope parameter of the RIKEN2 CD data, the resultant corrected
b-slope parameter suggested by Esbensen, Bertsch and Snover is shown to be
considerably smaller than the so called average b-slope parameter of DC data.
The suggested corrections of the b-slope parameter lead to a large disagreement
with DC data, in sharp contrast to the claim. The slope corrections are only
significant for the RIKEN2 CD data. For the GSI kinematics, where in fact one
may observe slope different than for DC (at least for the GSI1 data), they find
a fortuitous cancellation that leads to a vanishingly small slope correction.
Hence the validity of these correction based on the observed slopes can not be
substantiated.
