Who You Callin' Science Fiction??

NYTimes.com:

Others, worried about speculation that a black hole could emerge from the proton collisions, have called it a doomsday machine, to the dismay of CERN physicists who can point to a variety of studies and reports that say that this fear is science fiction.

I'd call the use of the phrase "science fiction" there bad writing. The inane talk of this thing making a black hole to swallow the earth is called ignorance.

Science fiction is generally created by people who actually understand a thing or two about science and can therefore envision the directions it might go or the ramifications it may lead to.

As one physicist told Cory at Boing Boing:

Look, it's a 10¹⁹ chance [of creating a black hole swallowing the earth], and you've got a 10¹¹ chance of suddenly evaporating while shaving.

Science. It's a statistical thing. Chances may be that you wouldn't understand.