My feelings exactly, CC. They're not skeptics for the most part, they are outright debunkers, and their urge to ridicule and debunk is not driven by any rationality or logic, it is driven by an emotional need to control and dominate other people's views and perceptions of reality...and even of possibility. They are also so terrified of "not knowing" and "not being sure" about something that they will attack anything unusual by sheer instinct. In this respect they are not unlike those who went witchhunting for the Church in all those bloody centuries past. Their instinct is to silence and/or destroy anyone who does not parrot the official government and science line delivered by those in charge. Those in charge used to be the clergy at one time. They are now the government agencies allied with the official science, military, and medical communities. Same problem, same orthodoxy, different set of official autocrats in charge, that's all.

They wear suits now instead of clerical robes. They ARE the modern day masters and servants of our version of the Inquisition.