Bacon claims that knowledge is power. Tragtenberg disagrees. This debate is now more important that can be imagined. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to examine the relationships between knowledge and power nowadays, taking into consideration the role of science and the elements immediately related to it. The most specific objectives of this study are: to understand the meaning of philosophy and science and their relationship with ideology; to examine how the discourse of the axiological neutrality of science is presented as a modern myth and how "faith" fits into philosophy and science nowadays; to reflect on the consolidation of science as a productive force and/or as a commodity in the current economic system; to highlight the importance of the military industrial complex as a financer of many current scientific studies; to understand the reasoning process, evaluating the importance of pragmatism and university bureaucracy as a statement of science nowadays. The text concludes that both knowledge as power is possible (Bacon) and the lack of knowledge, but with power (Tragtenberg) when it comes to understanding the relationship between knowledge and power.
organizational studies; power; knowledge; science; critical theory