If the U.S. knew there was a risk that they could cause a worldwide pandemic (wasting disease in deer for example), and did nothing, and a disease erupted here, I bet you wouldn't be so quick to apologize.
It's not just skepticism, that's for sure. How do I put it? It's like assuming there are sides when there are no sides. I'm curious, is there a word for this?
See also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/partisanship/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/ideology/
Food for thought: perhaps people treating everything as fake news is an unfortunate adverse effect of all the messaging about the dangers of not recognizing fake news.
As far as I understand, outrage culture is about shunning popular folks for their imperfect human morality. Could you (or someone else) elaborate on how this is related to this, well, let's call it erosion of neutrality?
my tldr of that post: in the context of ideological/political theory, mistake theorists are engineers who want results, conflict theorists are warmongers who want to win.
Perhaps seeing bias in everything is just one of those warmongering traits -- because trust me, it's really hard to win against a neutral point of view.