Ditto law. There's no undergraduate program specifically in law, so law students come from a variety of backgrounds, including science and engineering. The people who run the business parts of my business have appropriate degrees in business. They also have undergraduate degrees in the relevant sciences such as chemistry, physics, and engineering. The scientists who work for me have degrees in physics, chemistry, engineering, and so forth -- most up to the doctoral level. These are scientists. That is, the work they do is the image most people conjure up when they hear the word "scientist."
Yes, that's also my understanding of what "business science" refers to specifically. The reason this is such an acute conversation is that "science" is a grossly overloaded term. Many people study topics that could be considered sciences in one way or another, largely as opposed to "arts" and "humanities." However, "I am a scientist," is usually intended to mean something more specific. And in the context of how to interpret the language used by metallurgists offering their findings, it must mean that specific thing.
