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Not to me, it looks like the normal use of scare quotes. You could swap it with so called science. Stuff that people call science, which is not.
If someone doesn't like any science, why would they care about a distinction between science and so called science?
If you don't like that, then you don't like scare quotes at all, but then what's the problem with saying "so called blah"?
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Not to me, it looks like the normal use of scare quotes. You could swap it with so called science. Stuff that people call science, which is not.
If someone doesn't like any science, why would they care about a distinction between science and so called science?
If you don't like that, then you don't like scare quotes at all, but then what's the problem with saying "so called blah"?