You're either after the truth FIRST, or being accepted by the world FIRST. Many times they conflict, so you have to choose which is your higher priority. I'd rather be wrong a few times while I seek the truth for its own sake, than always cling to the "majority opinion" so I'm considered "right" by the greatest number of people -- even though that position is often wrong in God's eyes.
I'm not picking on you. This thread is an occasion.
If "truth" is the highest priority, then you wouldn't lock yourself into positions that could be wrong. The problem here is not that something was wrong - everyone makes mistakes - but that it showed certainty about something that turned out to be wrong.
Let's be realistic here. While MSM gets things wrong, so does "alt media", and we should be skeptical of "alt media", too. A lot of alt media is controlled opposition. Some may be enemy plants. And some is run by "useful idiots".
And this is not just about being against "worldlings". We do not need to take contrary positions on everything that the world agrees with.The world gets things right, too. They tend to use toilets rather than the living room carpet. Many of them even accept 1+1=2.
Many of these problems would clear up if people had the discipline to not pass judgements about fields they don't know anything about. There's a thread about quantum mechanics. Of those commenting, how many have at least graduate degrees in quantum physics? How about have taken ONE CLASS in quantum physics? I'm guessing not many. But without any background or genuine knowledge of the field, these people condemn it entirely. That's pride - that with no work on your own, you can be above experts.
In the absence of knowledge, a lot of things are possible. So sure, if you ignored press releases, it was possible RBG was dead. Likewise, to someone who has never studied quantum physics, it might seem possible that some experiment is being misinterpreted. But that's before someone has put in the work to study it.