I do believe that science and sanity are inversely proportional. It's not for no reason that scientists run around in white coats. It's to ward off psychiatric evaluation teams. There is a tacit agreement in the psychiatric profession that anyone in a white coat is not to be subjected to the same standards of sanity that everyone else is. If not for this little understanding of theirs they would all be on the other side of the padded-room door.
Biologists have a similar agreement concerning autoclaves and blenders.
If mice could just figure out how to wardrobe themselves in little white lab coats they wouldn't be blenderized for research.