A correction has been issued for this article. The title of the article has been amended to reflect that this article is a commentary on the original article, so this has been modified in-line to clearly distinguish this commentary from the original article by Moncrieff et al. The declaration of interests and funding statements were erroneously omitted and have also been added.

The authors have corrected the References to include the original article by Moncrieff et al.

The authors and Publisher apologise for these errors and note that they do not affect the argument or conclusions of this commentary article.