What does it mean to be a "scientist" in the US? Is it strictly a person in academia who is in the pursuit of research grants?
Does it also include private sector researchers and engineers?
Does it also include private sector researchers and engineers?
Of course it's hard to draw a hard-and-fast line between the two, so let's just consider scientists as people who would say they're a scientist, and engineers people who would say that they're an engineer.