Some cosmologists have an almost religious need for the universe to be trembling on the brink between eternal expansion and eventual collapse. The average skeptic is unlikely to have either the knowledge or the motivation to take sides. As skeptics do so often, we must sit on the fence until the evidence is in. In the sciences though, once strong evidence is in, it becomes perverse to support a contrary view. The majority opinion may be wrong, in the past it sometimes has been, but this is self- correcting.
Science is a very competitive field.
If there is the slightest chance of proving someone wrong, there is instant fame, if not fortune, awaiting the person who does it. This doesn't stop individual scientists from pursuing pet theories far beyond reasonable bounds. Respected astronomers Sir Fred Hoyle and Chip Arp have, both in their own way, attacked cosmological expansion as the explanation for the Red Shift. They can't both be right. Physicist Thomas Gold supports Hoyle, but he also believes that oil comes from reservoirs of deeply buried primordial methane.