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The power to draw and enforce boundaries between “science” and “non‑science,” “knowledge” and “belief,” “rational” and “irrational.” Those who control the demarcation criteria control which fields receive funding, which voices are heard in public debate, and which worldviews are pathologised. Demarcation domination is often wielded by institutional science against alternative medicine, indigenous knowledge, or critical social science. It is a form of epistemic gatekeeping that preserves the authority of dominant paradigms.
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