Actually they do have a choice, the alternate one to what you asserted being to
not trust the claims of the scientists, which is what I'm doing - or not doing?
Good for you in saying 'supposedly found' though. I detect a little scepticism ensconced in those two words - welcome to the club!!
Actually, there is another choice. If there is reason to disbelieve what the guys at CERN are saying, then you could build your own particle accelerator.
One of the characteristics of science is that people don't just publish results; they also publish their methods, so anyone else can reproduce those results.
If you doubt their claims about the Higgs boson, then all the information is available for you to run the tests yourself. Obviously you will need funding - so you will need to find someone else who has deep pockets and has reason to be skeptical of the CERN claims; Perhaps the US government, or a consortium of US corporations could be persuaded to mistrust European scientists to the point of bankrolling your project; or maybe the Chinese or the Russians, or both.
For sure, none of the teams at CERN (and there are competing teams, each of whom would be happy to blow the whistle if they thought the others were getting it wrong, or cheating) would object to the establishment of a second facility to test their results.
The motto of the Royal Society -
Nullius in verba - means 'Take nobody's word for it'. Scientists don't want you to believe the journalists reports of their results; they want you to learn the science, check their work, and then move on to discover the next big thing.
That you are too lazy to do so is not their fault.