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**Joe Strout**

In article . com,
wrote:

Is SETI-- the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence--
"hocus-pocus"?
"anti-science"?

No, it's valid science, though extremely unlikely to produce anything
more than continued negative results -- but even negative results are
interesting.

The SETI community, however, is growing a little anti-science, in the
sense that they are trying to squash open discussion:
http://lifeboat.com/ex/shouting.at.the.cosmos

(Please ignore the cheesy stock photos somebody added to Brin's
otherwise sensible essay.)