> This is a recursive definition of scientist "A scientist(t=n) is someone approved by scientists(t=n-1)". If you have a good initial condition maybe it can wor

> This is a recursive definition of scientist "A scientist(t=n) is someone approved by scientists(t=n-1)". If you have a good initial condition maybe it can work for a while, but it seems that time may be coming to an end. There is no formal definition for a "scientist" and likely will never be. Definitely a scientist is not "one who has a paper accepted". Here the commenter is just claiming that in order to publish a paper in a specific journal you do need be accepted by a handful of people who have previously been accepted in the same journal. Barring the obvious chicken and egg problem which is easily solved, it does not seem to be like something which "is coming to an end".