I would believe it was an accident or bug if it was any other administration under any other circumstance. Given the vandalism that’s already been committed against basic U.S. government functions, I have to conclude it’s malice until proven otherwise.

I hope you’re proven wrong.

I suppose the good news is that there’s no report that this is malicious and it’s all just assumptions. That makes me happier than if there was some intentional shutdown.

And fortunately, pubmed is up and running as of 822amEST

It is certainly intentionally that NCBI is miraculously down for no real reason. But usually when the political debates are heated it happens more often. What one can observe now is just funny nothing of unhappy political activists.

As for me, I believe it not only because of the current administration per se, but because it's basically same as how the usaid.gov shutdown happened.