Ask HN: What's up with Data Scientist in 3 months programs?

I have a bunch of friends especially female lately that are telling me that they will quit their job and become data scientists.

There is apparently a program that costs around $3k and takes you as a totally non-tech person working in sales or whatever unrelated subject and turns you into a data scientist.

I find this dangerous. First of all in no way if you have no idea about a p-value is you can become proficient in ML, using support vector machines or even writing code in R and Python.

What maybe they mean is you can become a marketing analyst and crunch some numbers but that's about in in 3-4 months.

What do you think?