“…In an alternative explanation of the quasideuteron nuclear photoabsorption cross sections, Lepretre et al [4] and Bergere [5], following the ideas of Laget [23], proposed that a quasideuteron within a nucleus can only undergo photoabsorption via exchange processes, and so only a fraction of the free deuteron photodisintegration cross section should be used. It seems to us that even if this is so, Pauli-blocking eA'ects would still damp the photoabsorption cross sections, and then their explanation would not be consistent with the data.…”