Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter GilbertScience doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
Walter GilbertBy asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert