Jorge has hit the nail square on the head with:

"Where I have a serious problem with many skeptics (Sagan and Gardener for example) is that they refuse to apply the method to things they dismiss. Double blind studies of acupuncture have shown it to be very effective in some cases. Yet they ignore these. And of course, they simply refuse to carry out experiments in certain areas. Rupert Sheldrake is a great example of someone who has conventional training and wants to investigate out-of-the-ordinary phenomena, using the standard approach, but can't get any funding."

a double standard, for sure, and a most unscientific one...another would be the use of the so-called sceptic investigator James Randi in his 'debunking efforts'..having watched one of these on film, I was most unimpressed at his replacement of real scientific method with vaudeville showmanship. Not science at all...