You can admire someone’s talent without accepting their account of everything else.

Talent is persuasive in a way that has nothing to do with accuracy. When someone is genuinely good at one thing, their version of other things arrives wrapped in the same authority, and the whole package tends to get waved through. Admiration and agreement begin as separate responses and then fuse without anyone deciding to fuse them.

Keep the two apart on purpose. When someone you admire describes a dispute, a person, or a field outside their gift, ask what you would need in order to believe it if a stranger had said it. Admire the work and check the rest.