About the Authors

Simon Stern

simon.stern@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trudo Lemmens

Affiliation Faculties of Law and Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SS TL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SS TL. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SS TL. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: SS TL. Jointly developed the structure and arguments of the paper: SS TL. Wrote the first draft of sections 1 and 2, and had primary responsibility for the discussion of concerns associated with ghostwriting: TL. Wrote the first draft of section 3, and had primary responsibility for the discussion of fraud: SS. Made critical revisions and approved the final version: SS TL.