I thought the field of Data Science was plagued with frauds, then I met "Data Science Recruiters."

Companies are hyped about Data Science in an ignorant way. They hire PhD level researchers to utilize data science for their buisness and later on those data scientists sit on their desk and control the takeoff and landing of flies outside the window, because the company doesn't know what they want to achieve with data science! they are just following the trend. (not all companies but most of them)