About democracy: So you want wise men (scientists, supposedly) to rule your society. I repeat it: that's an aristocracy/meritocracy. According to Wikipedia "Aristocracy is a form of government in which the best qualified citizens rule".
You are missing the point. It's not about who decides what, but according to what method. We advocate the scientific method, so if everybody was scientific literate, as we propose, everybody would be engaged in the act of "deciding".
Aristocracy is a loaded word, and doesn't solve the problem because you are to have to explain who is qualified and why, who decides and so on.
If you don't understand that, try joining the Drupal or the Firefox development team. And, by the way, it's not just programmers, there is usability testing, graphic design and all sorts of things, and that's just a software program. Apply that to the whole society, and anybody can contribute, given that the scientific method is followed.
You keep thinking in abstract terms and ideologies, and that's why you project those notions to other. I'm talking about practical things that work, I'm not interested in discussion the sex of the angels as you are.
You can only apply the scientific method to SCIENCE. Love is not a science. Engineering is not science although it uses science. Politics is not a science. Programming is not a science. You have to understand the
Science is "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations" (wikipedia).
The scientific method is just a way of acquiring new knowledge, not a way of organizing society or deciding economy/policy/laws. It's neither a way of deciding if for example capitalism, communism or a resource based society is the best thing for humanity. You can't use the scientific method to decide if a man has to go to prison or not. You can't use the scientific method to decide if we ought to build nuclear power plants or solar cells...