When I looked at the authors list I got the impression that it was mostly sociologists, public health researchers etc, but not very many well known statistician

When I looked at the authors list I got the impression that it was mostly sociologists, public health researchers etc, but not very many well known statisticians, or people from the traditional physical and biological sciences. It seems like it would have been better to have more authors from the latter groups to make such a broad suggestion; their absence suggests that the proposal doesn't have much support among those fields.