Simple clarification question on Three Body Problem, re "Physics doesn't exist"

Finished book 1 this weekend and I can't get it out of my brain. I have one thing I'm not sure I fully understood. My understanding of scientists who concluded physics doesn't exist is that they were actually just reacting to the "doctored" results of their experiments - because the worlds partical accelerators were infiltrated by sophons. In reality, their experiments would have yielded more expected and consistent results. Is this a correct understanding of these plot points?