Remarks on the "new redshift interpretation"

In a recent article,(1) Gentry proposed a new static cosmological model tha t seeks to explain the Hubble relation as a combination of gravitational an d Doppler redshifts. We show that Gentry's model, although supposedly based on general relativity, is inconsistent with the Einstein field equations: (a) it requires delicate fine tuning of initial conditions; (b) it is highl y unstable, both gravitationally and thermodynamically; and (c) its predict ions disagree clearly with observation.