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Seems like they take Feynman's "reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled" and add a but of mysticism, resulting in "Nature is out to get you, constant vigilance, citizen!". Certainly makes the message easier to internalize for those who already think they live in a hostile environment.
That's just a less-pithy version of "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum", one of the formulations of Finagle's Law.
And then we get to the hard question-- how do we decide what is true about nature?
The usual way, make models (and metamodels) and refine them to explain and predict better.