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This seems like your standard physics bias. That is, if what these scientists are doing doesn't look exactly like what physicists are doing, what they are dong isn't really science.
Come on guys, this stuff should have died off in the 1960s. Evolutionary biology, microeconomics, and artificial intelligence cannot and should not try to be physics. The very nature of the subject matter prevents it from being so.
For whatever it's worth, high energy physics is only one of Platt's examples - the other is molecular biology. And much of the basis for evolutionary biology has a quantitative, physics-style way of working. I'm tempted to suggest that evolutionary biology has been so much more unambiguously successful than microeconomics and AI because it has aped physics so well!