However, the same is truth in reverse as well. If a supposed skeptic has a worldview that despises the unexplained and doesn't believe in anything strange then they may never see the strange and unexplained. Even if they do they may still deny it.
People really are their beliefs and that goes for the rationalist-materialist crowd also. I would think the nasty behavior of the skeptics (and their pathological skepticism) towards the other side would show that they obviously have an agenda of their own. Yes, the defenders of science may very well be following their own religion.