Thinking scientifically requires intellectual honesty: a desire to get to the truth, not just to gather data to confirm your current views
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Rational thinking considers all available evidence. You can only get there if you like the truth more than you like being proven right
Also, if the scientists you quote speak with total confidence on a topic that is far from settled, maybe they're not very good scientists
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It's not having a PhD that makes you a scientist, it's applying the scientific method to advance human knowledge
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I've been employing the dialectic method in my private writings to get to the bottom of this.
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