True and non-fiction aren't the same thing. Conspiracy theories and crackpot ideas don't purport to be literary works. Nobody talks about papers about the lumin

True and non-fiction aren't the same thing. Conspiracy theories and crackpot ideas don't purport to be literary works. Nobody talks about papers about the luminiferous ether as works of fiction simply because they're wrong. Maybe a pendantic point, but if you're insisting on playing word games instead of boycotting purveyors of pseudoscience and crankery, then I'm going to point out that's not really what the word "fiction" means.