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@mttaggart Counter-point: Looking for complexity likely will get you to believe conspiracy theories. To be consistent in the face of, huh, reality, these hypotheses need to be complicated, which is easily mistook for complexity.

Ironically, your simple call to embrace complexity defeats itself. I don't have an equally simple call to replace it with but I have a set guiding principles in order not to fall in the pitfall you described:
- Always be curious, especially of information going against your established opinions.
- Establish how much the information is based off of facts, rather than values. Differing on values is ok, differing on facts is not. This step is tricky because people with no scruples will not hesitate to use the language of facts to disguise propaganda.
- Admit that not knowing everything about something is ok. But there's still a threshold of knowledge needed to get a somewhat accurate picture.
- Always think about the people first. Systems are made out of people, so their well-being is paramount.

There are probably more, all of these were established after the fact, I didn't follow a specific philosophy.