On 2016 Sep 30, Jackie Marchington commented:

The Global Alliance of Publication Professionals (GAPP) submitted a timely response to this article to BMC Medical Ethics in May 2016. In September 2016 we received the author’s response to our correspondence. In the light of current (as of September 2016) correspondence on a subsequent, similar article by the same author in the British Medical Journal (http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4578/rapid-responses), we consider our original response to this article to be redundant, but would encourage readers to visit the BMJ correspondence.

Disclosure: All members of GAPP declare that we have provided or do provide ethical medical writing services to academic, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical clients, and are active in national and international not-for-profit associations that encourage ethical medical writing practices. Details of GAPP members can be found at http://gappteam.org

On 2016 Sep 30, Jackie Marchington commented:

The Global Alliance of Publication Professionals (GAPP) submitted a timely response to this article to BMC Medical Ethics in May 2016. In September 2016 we received the author’s response to our correspondence. In the light of current (as of September 2016) correspondence on a subsequent, similar article by the same author in the British Medical Journal (http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4578/rapid-responses), we consider our original response to this article to be redundant, but would encourage readers to visit the BMJ correspondence.

Disclosure: All members of GAPP declare that we have provided or do provide ethical medical writing services to academic, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical clients, and are active in national and international not-for-profit associations that encourage ethical medical writing practices. Details of GAPP members can be found at http://gappteam.org