Truth & Reality

For some reason, I was thinking about theories of truth this morning & recalled Gettier's paper, which was introduced to me by our professor in my epistemology course. Apparently, Gettier won a master's degree on the basis of his paper, since the reasoning was so important in philosophy at the time,  causing problems for B Russel's "four tests of truth." http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html

I think the idea of truth was floating around in  my head because of a recent profile of Anton Zeilinger. Actually, Zellinger was addressing the question of reality more than that of truth, and a question that he puts to philosophers is why must they keep looking for some "hidden reality" rather than just accepting their observations? But, if they did, wouldn't Zelinger say that they're not making the correct observations? And that perhaps, he, Zelinger, is, which would entail the notion that only he, or perhaps other quanum  physicists as well, have the tools to observe reality?

Does this make sense, or is a false conundrum of some kind?

An interesting aside: in the same proile, op cit, Zellinger says that he believes that one when teleportation can be practically done, quanum physics will have  the ability to create encryption that could never be broken ("quantum computing").

Zellinger and colleagues have successfully transported a separated photon some ninety miles.

Beam me up, Scottie!