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Solving the wrong problems precisely is the central topic of Dirty Rotten Strategies. If problems art wrongly stated to begin with, then what good are the answers? It is little wonder that we fail repeatedly to make headway on important issues and problems. Because they are especially fertile sources of errors and because they are so important in their own right, we examine how health care, national security, the media, academia, and religion routinely solve the wrong problems. Even more important, we examine how they routinely foist the wrong problems on us. As a result, we are worse off because what we need are the right answers to the right problems, and not wasted effort on getting the right answers to the wrong problems. Needless to say, there is no end of other important issues that we could have chosen to examine. Given that each of these topics reflects our own particular interests, our choices are to a certain extent arbitrary. However, in an important sense our choice of topics is also anything but arbitrary. Health care, national security, the media, academia, and religion are almost guaranteed to appear on anyone's list of major issues. Although the divisions between the body, mind, and spirit are no longer as clear-cut and sacrosanct as they once were, we examine the health, safety, and security of the body, the mind, and the spirit. The divisions are no longer clear-cut, because any and all of our key problems could be grouped simultaneously under body, mind, and spirit. The latest evidence from the neurosciences shows how strongly connected, and interconnected, the various aspects of humans are. In addition, all of our problems are simultaneously political, psychological, philosophical, spiritual, and so on. Therefore, no single discipline or profession has monopoly on how we ought to define our key problems. As a result, the solutions also are not to be found in any single discipline or profession.