Ultra-left science policy and anti-modernization in Argentina: Oscar Varsavsky

Mauricio Schoijet

Science and Public Policy, 2002, vol. 29, issue 1, 69-75

Abstract: The anticientificismo trend that started in Argentina in 1962 was a resistance to modernization. Oscar Varsavsky's best known work of 1969 combined elements of an ultra-leftist critique of science with a critique of the way in which Argentine science was developing. He had a very important ideological influence in the 1970s in much of Latin America in many technical and scientific groups. His work was used by obscurantist elements for repressive policies. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2002
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