What’s your criteria, then, for determining is someone is a real scientist if having a degree isn’t enough?
And how do you determine that someone without a degree qualifies as a *real scientist*?
How do you determine that someone who has a degree isn’t a real scientist?
That’s a pretty broad subject, but generally if they’re just too lazy to actually do research and are just making stuff up to try and get money or notoriety for it I don’t consider them to be “real scientists”, regardless if they have academic credentials or not.