Evolutionary psychology is not very well respected within academia and specifically derided for not having testable hypotheses and thus not being falsifiable. Once it can form falsifiable claims is the point where people will potentially take it seriously.
That is just an appeal to authority fallacy. Fields of science that rock the boat of consensus are never respected. Just look at the the story of Ignaz Semmelweis who was bullied to insanity for his accomplishments, because he went against the scientific consensus of his day. Turns out he was right and his theories saved millions of lives.
