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Suggested Readings:
 

• Karl Popper, “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”, in Conjectures and Refutations (5^th edition, London: Routledge, 1991) (where the concept was introduced)

• Paul R. Thagard “Why Astrology Is a Pseudoscience”, from the Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association Vol. 1 (East Lansing, Mich.:Philosophy of Science Association, 1978) 223-234, P. Asquith and I. Hacking, eds. (this is where I found his four criteria of pseudoscience based on the proponents' methods and behavior, gives a critique of other demarcation ideas as well)

• Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So; The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life, The Free Press, New York 1991 (no discussion of demarcation, but explains the need for safeguards in science)

• Michael Ruse, “Creation-Science Is Not Science”, from Science, Technology, and Human Values No. 40 pp: 72-78 Summer 1982, “Response to the Commentary: Pro Judice”, from Science, Technology, and Human Values No. 41 pp: 19-23 Fall 1982

  Larry Laudan, “Commentary: Science at the Bar – Causes for Concern”, from Science, Technology, and Human Values No. 41 pp: 16-19 Fall 1982

        (these three readings are sort of a dialog between Ruse and Laudan on the adequacy of the criteria used in the creationism case McLean vs. Arkansas)

• Michael Ruse (editor), But Is It Science?: The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (Frontiers of Philosophy), Prometheus Books, August 1996 (relevant chapters highlighted below)