Ironic Science: Coined by the science writer John Horgan, represents the axioms and artifacts of scientific theories that will take a million or more years to prove correct, if you're lucky. Ironic science is particularly attractive to science fiction writers and psychologists, since the former can postulate alien civililizations, ice ages, and galactic empires, and the latter all sorts of wierd and scarcely provable human instincts without being held accountable for their proof in their lifetimes.
