{
  "id": 692,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23462v1",
  "title": "War in the Abstract: The Rise and Consequences of Militarized Language in Scientific Communication",
  "summary": "Scientists do not, by profession, wage war. Yet warfare's vocabulary consistently appears in their abstracts. To quantify the extent to which warfare's vocabulary pervades scientific abstracts, we analyze 21.4 million papers (2010-2025; OpenAlex, PubMed). We additionally run a within-subject war-framing experiment (N = 801; 32,040 trials) designed to provide causal insight into the effects of militaristic language on persuasion. Between 2010 and 2025, the presence of militaristic terms in scient",
  "authors": "Sovesh Mohapatra, David Lydon-Staley, Dani S. Bassett",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-22T15:10:32.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:41.553Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/692",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23462v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}