We must stop relying on scientific infrastructure provided by one nation or organization. Any single point of failure makes science fragile. Instead, we need multiple organizations across as many countries as possible, collectively providing access to overlapping data and services, so that the loss of any one or several of these doesn’t stop us from doing science.
I mean, this is true for any public service or good, right?
To be clear, I am not criticizing Goodman’s point of post. Exactly the opposite, in fact! We should be thinking about decentralization, redundancy, and recoverability much more widely.