> a very skeptical eye on anyone who comes out of the woodwork

It wasn't one. It was eight women who put themselves in the firing line of (mostly) men, who craft no end of reasons to not believe them.

I believe them.

Many believed the women who accused Assange of rape also that led to the bogus charges that had him imprisoned in an Embassy and then a British dungeon for years.

>who craft no end of reasons to not believe them.

The reason is that these allegations surfaced after he aroused the ire of the national security state. That's the end of the reason.