Big picture, holistic thinking can for sure follow the scientific method!

These are just my own, personal ramblings and thoughts on this subjects, more or less shaped through the years by observing single mindedness and how very narrow ways of thinking has taken over too much in this world...

Of course Wikipedia is far from neutral or genuinely well informed, but there are still some OK pieces in here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism_in_science