>>14407464yes, through fraudulence and social manipulation. most of the people you regard as successful in the sciences are total frauds, the frauds all hang together and use social manipulation techniques like peer review to demand the trappings of success in the sciences even if they are unable to successfully produce anything useful to justify the titles, paychecks and other gibes which go along with a successful science career.
if you can do fraudulence and social manipulation then you can go pretty far, take linda ham for example, or einstein, he couldn't do math, but he ended up with all the trappings of success anyway