"in simplistic ways" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence such as: "The teacher explained the concept in simplistic ways that the students could easily understand."
But I understand journalists' perspectives, because there is so much public representation of religion in very simplistic ways.
I'd like to think that your films can create more understanding between Americans and Iranians, but I fear that US media encourages Americans to think in somewhat simplistic ways.
The motivations behind things like mass or school shootings are just too complex to be reduced in such simplistic ways.
Although I consider myself bound by the Court's decision in Philadelphia Bank, see United States v. Third National Bank, supra, 390 U.S., at 193, 88 S.Ct., at 895, I cannot concur in the simplistic way in which the Court applies the numbers test here.
The common theme running through Stiglitz's academic work is that markets often don't work in the simplistic way that is taught in Econ.
"I'm very much concerned that Buddhism in the U.S. is being treated in a simplistic way, and sites like Dharmadate contribute to that," said Professor Prebish, who wrote "Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America" (University of California Press).
With a few notable exceptions, the work on view here reflects the simplistic ways in which notions of identity and cultural difference are exploited in the name of art these days, used as shortcuts to theoretically correct appropriations of popular culture.
"The foundation of trade and manufactures," he wrote in his Testament Politique of 1752, "is to prevent money leaving the country and to make it come in". The direct and simplistic way in which these ideas were sometimes applied can be seen in an order of 1747 forbidding individuals to take more than 300 thalers in specie out of their territories.
