There needs to be balance. I see people religiously hold to the orthodoxy of scientific knowledge rather than the scientific method. But there's also the case where established scientists are financially reliant on what the orthodoxy is as that's what their research is about.
The world is complicated and not intuitive and I'm aware there's a distinction between rejection and skepticism, but I feel that people err to rejection much too easily.
Some examples of the weirdness of the world: Quantum mechanics and the fact that it's possible to build a windpowered land vehicle that travels directly down wind faster than the wind.
Trying to find other examples, I've run across Boltzmann who committed suicide in 1906 likely due to all the pressure he faced trying to get people to accept the idea atoms exist.