I am sure you have firm beliefs about many things that you have not read papers about. You trust the field that studies these things is not full of charlatans.

I am sure you have firm beliefs about many things that you have not read papers about. You trust the field that studies these things is not full of charlatans. If the reason to believe proposition P is that the experts who study this thing say it, most people believe P. That people with obvious non-scientific motives to assert !P do assert !P is not considered evidence of scientific controversy but rather of the non-scientific motives that were obvious in the first place.