Soooo, to be a scientist, all you need to do is be rigorous in scientific principles and endeavours? Sounds cool. I can get with that. Unfortunately, there are many who don't, although I empirically postulate such based solely upon my cursory analyses of an unlimited sample size of bullshit which I can't be arsed to tie together because of the sheer volume of stupidity exercised ad infintum every time I hear one more idiot say shit and not back it up.

Of course, I could be wrong...