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RE: Scientific 'Facts' Could Be False - Science's Replication Crisis
That's why in particle physics, we have always (at least) two independent experiments.
A scientific fact should however never be taken for granted. With the evolution of knowledge, new data, etc, what is true today may become partially true tomorrow or even wrong. This is what science is, after all. I am not sure this applies directly to the fakenews business, as here, it is difficult to me to call a 'fact' a 'fact'. We always have some interpretation on top of it and one must be careful with what we read.
Indeed, that's why proper science is great, continually self-correction in light of new evidence. It ties into fakenews through conses formation, as I have said. Publications are spread around and consensus forms in the public.
In biology as well, even then sometimes things are only replicable in one groups hands. For an example where that is happening right now see Natronobacterium gregoryi Argonaute, the protein was published to have interesting properties, but nobody can replicate it.