*grins* Um... you don't appear to have met many scientists. they are hardly polite as a group & nothing short of catastrophic upheaval will shift most of them from a view they have decided is correct - bit like the rest of us really.
he he he I know some... Former Carl Sagan, by example. He was a superb exponent of skepticism. By reference, try to obtain (from web) following book: "Broca's Brain". There are a complete chapter devoted to occult affaires from a skeptic viewpoint ("Sense and Non-Sense in Science Frontiers", if my memory serves well)

Other reference: http://www.csicop.org/bibliography/whatsnew.cgi

Sincerely,
Ángel