Oh...?
My wife received a National Merit Scholarship to attend university, where she majored in physics and minored in math. Her graduate studies were in chaos theory and mathematical modeling of the atmosphere, though that's just from trusting what she tells me--her publications seem like just a bunch of equations. :-)
And...she's a damn good newspaper editor-in-chief, with awards both for herself and her staff's work.
OTOH, you might be close to the truth...I think that we scientists are those who didn't have the brains (and ethics deficit) to just go into something unproductive, like spurious tort-law litigation.
You’re not insinuating that your wife is the norm in journalism i.e. Physics major?
Forgive me for a generalization.....
She learned more and more about less and less till she knew nothing about anything.