Suppose you distrusted everything you had ever read about science. How much of modern scientific knowledge could you verify for yourself, using only your own senses and the sort of equipment you could easily obtain? How about if you accept third-party evidence when many thousands of people can easily check the facts?

Interestingly enough, this was the original idea behind science. Hence, the motto of the royal society nullius in verba, or in English "Take no one's word for it".