What you can do is review their methodology and results yourself and compare to other experimental data and essentially check their work , even if actual research is beyond you . In some cases , the technology you would need to test the scientific theory is easily at hand , yet they choose not to use it flat earthers . Fact is they could educate themselves to the point where they could actually make an informed judgement , but instead they choose to think of scientists as some sort of other who act conspiratorially . Anyone can be a scientist but most people are willing to delegate that role to the people that actually want to . Annoying that they ' re not willing to listen to their findings after delegating that responsibility in the first place . It ' d be like you refusing to take chemistry , but then after you dispute my explanation of how a chemical reaction worked . You just don ' t have the knowledge required to make that call , but you could have had it if you ' d bothered to take the class .