  A new branch of quasinormal modes for a massless scalar field propagating on
the Schwarzschild spacetime was recently announced [1807.04513]. We review the
quasinormal modes characterisation and arguments and identify the flaws in
their proof. Then, we preset explicit counterexamples to such arguments.
Finally, we study the modes via alternative methods and do not find the new
branch. We conclude against their interpretation.
