verbier_ski_bum wrote:Being an engineer doesn't make you a scientist.
You sure about that? 8)
Engineer - a person who is trained in or follows as a profession a branch of engineering.
Engineering - the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people.
Isn't an engineer, by definition, an "applied scientist"?
You may not agree with Watts (and I often don't FWIW), but his blog does at least usually reference the science and observations that drive his opinions.