The Daily Grail has a piece on the odd pairing (not so odd, actually) of CSI (formerly CSICOP) and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence): SETI and CSICOP - Strange Bedfellows

I say it's not so odd because SETI is a skeptibunny organization, as the article on The Daily Grail points out. For example, Phil Plait, the "Bad Astronomy" guy and new emperor of JREF is a "regular" on SETI radio. And so on.

Now you know I love this question:

Why does James Randi not offer a million dollar prize for SETI to prove that there is truly an alien intelligence out there, with criticism of the funding that has been provided to them? Simply because he thinks it likely that there is 'someone' out there. Parapsychology research has provided far more positive results than SETI (see the Dean Radin interview in this issue), with as huge implications for our paradigm, but he regularly savages anyone who dares to ask the question of whether psi effects exist, and finds the idea of funding such studies outrageous.

But read the article for yourself. While you're over there, look at all the other goodies they have there, maybe buy a book or something, or make a donation. After all, what would we do without places like The Daily Grail?