This is an utterly pointless argument. If people look at the evidence themselves they can make their own minds up. They are quite capable of doing this.
They do. All the time. Millions of people across the world look at evidence and come to their own conclusions. They call themselves "scientists".
While ever people are being discouraged from doing this,
You can keep repeating that phrase over and over and over (I guess you have to, because that appears to be your entire case), but it won't make it true. People are not being discouraged from looking at evidence. The exact opposite is true.
Hey, provide some examples of people discouraging us from looking at evidence? For someone so hot on evidence, you don't seem to be very keen on actually providing any.