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by FussyOtter 577 days ago
Elon Musk is not a scientist. He employs scientists.
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But do general people know who is a scientist and who isn't? How do they find out?

It isn't by membership of a learned society, it isn't if they are working at a university. There is no simple way for a general person to know if somebody is a scientist.