In the present note, we discuss certain observations made by the author in February 2009 concerning strongly torsion-free profinite groups [cf. [Mzk2], Definition 1.1, (iii)]. These observations grew out of e-mail correspondences between the author, Akio Tamagawa, and Marco Boggi, as well as oral discussions between the author and Akio Tamagawa. Definition 1. Let G be a profinite group. (i) We ...