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In this article we have studied the conflict around scientific discourses as power speeches in two environmental conflicts in the city of Cordoba, Argentina - Pueblos Unidos and Vudas against Porta company. We have worked with 20 in depth interviews combining content analysis and discourse analysis techniques. From the analysis emerge two body configurations: First, environmental affected that refers to the contaminated bodies and to the conflictive relation with the scientific discourse that, articulated with the interests of capital does not account for the affliction presented by the bodies. Second, the existence of healthy bodies, free of pollution and the denunciation of scientific discoursed for manipulating the studies in order to sustain the idea of pollution. In conclusion, the scientific discourse functions as a discourse of power that goes through the struggles. The different configuration of bodies in each case is explained as an effectuation of the singular articulation that has occurred between the different fractions of capital and the scientific discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]