On 2015 Mar 11, David Mage commented:

This comment was written from reading this abstract the instant it was uploaded before the link to the pdf was added by PUBMED. A final comment is added at the end as a CODA that was made necessary when the article was read. The medical literature has at this instant of writing 10778 PUBMED returns for SIDS (some are not on sudden infant death syndrome but with the same acronym). Most of them are worthless shots-in-the-dark hoping to hit something. The burgeoning literature has an insatiable demand for content and editors and reviewers are not guarding the gates, as true experts cannot review every article submitted in their fields before publication. Hundreds of articles are written on small sample size studies that report a glimmer of a correlation of SIDS with something that they hope by some undiscovered alchemical legerdemain can be converted into a causation. And yet, as the sample size increases the vision of gold always becomes one of pyrites. Its like the fisherman hooking something big leading to visions of a record size catch, only to find when it breaks the surface that it is an old tire. Temperature is involved with SIDS but in the completely opposite direction. SIDS rate maximizes in the winter, not in the summer. Hawaii, a state without seasons, (O.K., maybe beautiful weather and very beautiful weather) has a maximum SIDS rate in the Northern hemisphere winter (Mage DT, 2004) that we relate to the higher incidence of respiratory infection in Japan and the continental U.S. by a tourist infection vector (Mage DT, 2009). This writer served with the WHO and spent 3.5 years in Malaysia where the tropical seasonal heat and humidity on a normal day would put Montreal to shame on its hottest and most humid day. O.K. now lets look at Canada (Mage DT, 2005). For years 1985-89 and 1994-1998 there were in all of Canada during the winter (Jan-Mar) 504 SIDS and 368 SIDS in the summer (Jul-Sep). Oh high temperature, where is thy sting? CODA: The authors wrote perceptively a la Trofim Desinovich Lysenko - "Another issue is that Taiwan has a mild climate with a population accustomed to heat, which may mitigate the impact of temperature on SIDS." Ah yes, the parental accomodation to heat by living in semi-tropical Taiwan is passed on through their mutated-genes to their offspring who at birth have their parent's ability to withstand the fearsome heat waves uniquely endemic to Taiwan.

On 2015 Mar 11, David Mage commented:

This comment was written from reading this abstract the instant it was uploaded before the link to the pdf was added by PUBMED. A final comment is added at the end as a CODA that was made necessary when the article was read. The medical literature has at this instant of writing 10778 PUBMED returns for SIDS (some are not on sudden infant death syndrome but with the same acronym). Most of them are worthless shots-in-the-dark hoping to hit something. The burgeoning literature has an insatiable demand for content and editors and reviewers are not guarding the gates, as true experts cannot review every article submitted in their fields before publication. Hundreds of articles are written on small sample size studies that report a glimmer of a correlation of SIDS with something that they hope by some undiscovered alchemical legerdemain can be converted into a causation. And yet, as the sample size increases the vision of gold always becomes one of pyrites. Its like the fisherman hooking something big leading to visions of a record size catch, only to find when it breaks the surface that it is an old tire. Temperature is involved with SIDS but in the completely opposite direction. SIDS rate maximizes in the winter, not in the summer. Hawaii, a state without seasons, (O.K., maybe beautiful weather and very beautiful weather) has a maximum SIDS rate in the Northern hemisphere winter (Mage DT, 2004) that we relate to the higher incidence of respiratory infection in Japan and the continental U.S. by a tourist infection vector (Mage DT, 2009). This writer served with the WHO and spent 3.5 years in Malaysia where the tropical seasonal heat and humidity on a normal day would put Montreal to shame on its hottest and most humid day. O.K. now lets look at Canada (Mage DT, 2005). For years 1985-89 and 1994-1998 there were in all of Canada during the winter (Jan-Mar) 504 SIDS and 368 SIDS in the summer (Jul-Sep). Oh high temperature, where is thy sting? CODA: The authors wrote perceptively a la Trofim Desinovich Lysenko - "Another issue is that Taiwan has a mild climate with a population accustomed to heat, which may mitigate the impact of temperature on SIDS." Ah yes, the parental accomodation to heat by living in semi-tropical Taiwan is passed on through their mutated-genes to their offspring who at birth have their parent's ability to withstand the fearsome heat waves uniquely endemic to Taiwan.