‘whole-ing’ the parts and righting the wrongs

The recent reports that popular panaceas are not working most of the time is not surprising; they are applied anti-systemically. These failures have two principal sources. First, they manipulate the parts of systems without regard to how their manipulations affect the whole through interactions of the parts. Second, they tend to do the wrong things righter rather than the right things. It is better to do the right thing wrong that the wrong thing right; the former leads to learning; the latter to reinforcement of error.