  The authors of the letter "Test of the Brink-Axel Hypothesis for the Pygmy
Dipole Resonance" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 182503 (2017)] claim a violation of
the Brink-Axel hypothesis by (gamma,gamma') data from gELBE for 96Mo [Phys.
Rev. C 79, 061302 (2009)]. This violation cannot be concluded from the
(gamma,gamma') data and is not at all discussed in that work. The comparison of
the (g,g') data with the new (p,p') data in the letter does not give any hint
to such a violation.
