Among the non-essential services currently being ransomed is science. All of it. The NSF is shut down,
Pubmed is off-line, NASA has closed it's doors, everyone who isn't keeping the ISS astronauts safe is on unexpected vacation. Curiosity is taking a furlough in safe mode on Mars. The
USDA is down and out. NIH is on a skeleton crew. According to Francis Collins they'd had to turn away 200 people due for clinic trials this week, including 30 kids, most of them cancer patients.