About the Authors

David M. Shaw

david.shaw@unibas.ch

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas C. Erren

Affiliation Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DS had the original idea for the article and wrote the first draft. TE revised and improved the article through substantial intellectual contributions, including improving the evidence base for the arguments. Both authors approved the final version.