We're just as irrational as you!

This Week In Science is a science podcast from KDVS radio and the University of California, Davis. This is how they introduce the show:

Mankind gains knowledge of the world only through reason. If knowledge is to be shared with the masses, the masses must be reasonable aswell. We will not make the ground-breaking discoveries of the future based on the impulses or opinions of an irrational world. Science does not make up a democratic decision, nor does an ideology. This is objective, reasoned, methodical calling of the intellect and... it's about to be broadcast live to the rational masses here on... This Week In Science.

I don't think I've ever seen so many completely and inexcusable wrong sentences in one spot!!! Scientists are NOT robots and the are NOT reasonable. They are passionate, irrational people who love to discover and think about things. Why is irrationality so difficult to accept? I mean we're not economists here, right? Humans are by their very nature contradictory and irrational - scientists are no different.

Oh, and as an aside, decisions are indeed made on a democratic basis, peer-review journals based their decisions on the (anonymous) opinions of experts in any given field (but the editor also has a large stake). Another example is the demotion of Pluto, that was decided at an international meeting of astronomers.