Even in philosophy this is applied to what you see, hear, touch and taste. The greatest epistemological notions can't begin to state what the truth is without some shared notions which we have to agree on to find common ground.

There is no way some stranger's story with up and down votes made by bots, idiots and people with good faith in their claims should be anything other that a story.

Add scientific papers into that now too as they've certainly been undermined by citation circle circlejerks.

Unless we're talking faith, everything should always be treated sceptically.