El discurso de Milei detrás del cientificidio argentino

Since the beginning of Javier Milei’s administration, the Argentine scientific and technological system has been facing an unprecedented scientificide. This article analyzes the presidential discourse to identify the rhetorical strategies he may use to justify his policies. First, it is shown that, contrary to what some authors claim, Milei does not adopt explicitly anti-intellectual or anti-scientific positions—if by such terms one unders-tood a rejection or disqualification of science as a whole, or its devaluation in comparison to other supposed ways of knowledge, such as religion or personal experience. Through a comprehensive survey of Milei’s speeches, interviews, book extracts, and tweets, it is shown that, on the contrary, he enthusiastically defends science as a driving force for hu-man progress. His contradictory discourse aims to be both a form of market fundamenta-lism and a "technophilic" advocacy of scientific achievements.