So what you are saying, from reading that article, is that there are certain superior classes of people, who have so much more knowledge than other people, whose word shall be taken as fact. And if one doesn't accept that superior class of people's work as fact, that individual shall be branded as a conspiracy theorist? (Even if that superior class of people has been quite wrong before..)
Addition on edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Addition on edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority