What's up with Sklansky and physicists?

[benkahuna]

The man sure seems to love physicists...

Why does Sklansky seem to view physicists as the smartest scientists and the only reasonable authorities for understanding the universe?

Why not mathematicians? Many of them understand things that no one else does and it is often a pure talent field. You can't succeed unless you're brilliant. Hard work isn't even close to enough. And Sklansky himself is a mathematician. These are his people!
Why not engineers? They take physics and apply it to solve daunting real world problems.
Why not chemists or biologists? They work in more complex systems with emergent properties dependent upon not just physics, but to the new rules present in their own fields as well. Their disoveries often have more real world application to benefit humanity than physisicists.
When concerning the nature of reality and the possible existence of G-d, does he mean astrophysicists?
Why not medical researchers and public health researchers that may benefit all mankind to have a happier healthier life?
Why not specifically nanotech researchers within physicists that could conceivably make humans immortal?
Why not philosophers, political activists, or political leaders that strive to solve problems of human interactions and social injustice?

Seems like he loves the problems they solve that have "a single answer," perhaps because that's the area in which he's skilled and how he may define intelligence? Does he reqret not going into physics? Did he fall in love with a physicist as a youth and like Humbert Humbert have his love taken from him creating an unhealthy obsession with physicists? All jokes aside, I'm curious.

It seems like a pretty strong bias and that it's unwarranted. Irrational even!

So Sklansky, what's the story? Where's the love for the rest of the scientific community, do gooders, and smart people outside of physics?