A Hippocratic oath for scientists - The Pugwash Pledge

[johnewarren]

I was reading the article (from the post title) in the guardian online over my lunch break which relates to another guardian article (The trouble with trusting complex science) and thought, one I would bring it to the forum members attention as I thought the Pugwash Pledge somewhat adhering and two what do we as a community often a subcommunity that interacts across the board with other scientific streams think? In light of the recent set of "crystal structures" which have been recalled. We have a union is there a mission statement, or an "oath" as part of the IUCr? I'd be interested to hear what you think.