Comment on "Theory of metal-insulator transitions in gated semiconductors" (B. L. Altshuler and D. L. Maslov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 145 (1999))

In a recent Letter, Altshuler and Maslov propose a model which attributes the anomalous temperature and field dependence of the resistivity of two-dimensional electron (or hole) systems to the charging and discharging of traps in the oxide (spacer), rather than to intrinsic behavior of interacting particles associated with a conductor-insulator transition in two dimensions. We argue against this model based on existing experimental evidence.