What Shawn Baker highlights here is the usual confusion between the map and the territory. It seems to be in the spirit of this age to do that. Whether - as in this case looking at the outcome of thyroid issues in terms of T3 and T4 levels vs implying thyroid problems when the T3 or T4 levels are not in the average population's range.
Another example is from the spiritual bunch: seeing that their world view and quantum mechanics somehow both could be seen as talking about a field of possibility with something pulling out one of those into reality. Except that it is not what quantum mechanics says (the wave function has no reason to be real for the equations to work) and you could have 20 other processes allowing for experiencing a different reality based on where your attention goes (including purely psychological and social phenomena like positive people convincing more easily other people about their plans or purely physical processes like an infinite universe allowing for all that can exist to exist somewhere somewhen and some unknown long distant link to move attention between them).
We really need to start thinking logically.
