[Physicist]

Indeed, quantum physics has simply come to accept as a given over the years that there does not seem to be an independent reality. Physics has ceased questioning this, because experiments have confirmed it repeatedly and with a growing accuracy.

Codswallop. If an electron is in two places, it doesn't mean that there's no independent reality. It means that the independent reality is that the electron is in both places. "No independent reality" would mean that the electron is over here for me and over there for you, but this doesn't happen, not in quantum theory, and not in experiment.

If there were no such thing as independent reality, there'd be no possibility of a science of physics.

[Quark2005]

If an electron is in two places, it doesn't mean that there's no independent reality.

Agreed. People tend to try to read too much philosophy into the science of quantum mechanics. Wave-particle duality means just what it says; no explicit or implicit statements about "independent reality" lie within it.