What the hel are you talking about. Asking for a source that has been checked by others and has not been debunked is not an appel to authority. People who peer-review articles are not an authority peer-review is open to **anyone**.. if you for example, even without a PhD or any authority, could show in a peer review that there is an experiment that debunks an assertion then you would be able to get a paper rejected...
What your really saying is "I object to the fact that people actually try to replicate experiments and double check if the results are correct"