%0 Journal Article %T A Purely Classical Derivation of the Meissner Effect? %A A. M. Gulian %J Physics %D 2012 %I arXiv %X A recent study (arXiv:1109.1968v2, to be published in American Journal of Physics) claims to provide a classical explanation of the Meissner effect. However, the argument misuses de Gennes' derivation of flux expulsion in superconductors. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6066v1