>While a scientist might have to dreadfully deal with salesmanship now and then, it shouldn't be affecting the day to day.
Scientists spend something like 20-30% of their time begging for grant money.
Worse still, in order to get the grant money, scientists have to abandon the genuine pursuit of knowledge and do some random busywork bullshit that they deep down know will produce nothing of value.
Once they have produced the bullshit research, they then spend another disproportionately large chunk of time convincing their colleagues that their research is actually valuable.
The remainder of their work time is spent pretending that they don't realise that their peers' and colleagues' work is complete bullshit.
Scientists spend something like 20-30% of their time begging for grant money.
Worse still, in order to get the grant money, scientists have to abandon the genuine pursuit of knowledge and do some random busywork bullshit that they deep down know will produce nothing of value.
Once they have produced the bullshit research, they then spend another disproportionately large chunk of time convincing their colleagues that their research is actually valuable.
The remainder of their work time is spent pretending that they don't realise that their peers' and colleagues' work is complete bullshit.
Don't get into academia.