NASA to outreach to the Muslim world: Atheist/Skeptic blogs silent

This isn’t exactly new, a lot of you might already know about this story: Obama's New Approach to Joint Space Exploration (original story). Below is a quote from an MSNBC article.

Bolden raised eyebrows in the space community and outrage among conservative pundits by telling Al-Jazeera television recently President Barack Obama had instructed him to work for better outreach with the Muslim world.

He said Obama told him one of his top priorities was to "find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38212800/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Charles Krauthammer is scathing on this:

I didn’t touch the original story. However, what is noteworthy is that the skeptic/atheist blogs I most regularly visit haven’t mentioned this to my knowing. Take the two main ones on my start-up menu, pharyngula and badastronomy:

muslim nasa site:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/

muslim nasa site:http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

muslim nasa site:http://skepchick.org/blog/

muslim nasa site:http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/

If any of you know about something I’m missing then do let me know but it appears very much that political allegiances are getting in the way of objectivity.

Posted under: Politics, Skepticism, Science
Posted on: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:12 PM
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