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The ethics committee as ghost author
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Funding University of Glasgow.
Competing interests The author is a member of an NHS research ethics committee and chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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