So the problem is reduced to "I believe what I want! This person said it and so I think it's true!"

Sounds like politics in a nutshell.

But one should be free to reject (in the sense that they should be free not to depend on it, or take decisions based on it) things that they did not themselves verify. But today if you do that, you become "anti-science"...and in-fact the people who wants others to "believe" science is anti-science..

The joke times we live in..