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Reductionism Wikipedia on Reductionism
One of the main proponents of holistic science is the physicist Fritjof Capra. For a thorough overview of reductionist versus holistic scientific worldview, consider my book reviews of the following books by Fritjof Capra: Let me give a few typical examples for reductionism in scientific texts and popular imaging. For example, it is written by Rupert Sheldrake in his book A New Science of Life that the old idea of a cosmic life energy, life force or vital energy was but a vitalistic theory. What Sheldrake means is that there is no such cosmic life energy, and he thus was reducing the whole idea of a cosmic energy to the term vitalism. It has to be seen that often in science and also in political scripts and writings, reductionism is used for belittling, or outright downplaying important concepts and phenomena of life, thereby manipulating public opinion. What Sheldrake did here was no less than scientific betrayal, and manipulation, for he did with not one sentence discuss the matter, which is discussed in whole libraries, so vast the debate is. This is unscientific and Sheldrake, thereby, betrays that he is an ideologist, not a scientist.
The next example, as obvious as it appears, plays a predominant role in our daily images, the images we are bombarded with, virtually since childhood, in our mass media. The image I have selected is a typical one and depicts a woman as a mere sex object, with admittedly beautiful breasts and beautiful legs, who is on the point to strip her pants off. Not by chance, and here we encounter a very striking example of pictorial reductionism, the head and the feet of the woman were cut by the photographer (not by me!), so that her sexy parts stand out for the spectator.
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