Dissipative drift‐wave turbulence, the type of turbulence studied by Terry and Diamond [Phys. Fluids28, 1419 (1985)], is shown to differ significantly from homogeneous Navier–Stokes turbulence, the type of turbulence from which Krommes draws the intuition and results used in his comparison. These differences make extrapolations from one case to the other unjustified and misleading. In its own right, clump theory is shown to compare well with laboratory and simulation data representing turbulence relevant to the theoretical model.