[betty boop]

They don't necessarily agree except in their alliance against scientific inquiry.

"Alliance against" is your perception, Doc. My perception is that the two major domains of human knowledge -- in the German language, Naturwissenchaft (the natural sciences) and Geisteswissenschaft (generally philosophy, including metaphysics and epistemology) are both necessary and ultimately complementary. One of the greatest physicists who ever lived, Niels Bohr, seemed to think so. He didn't want to see the natural sciences cross the street into the other domain (and presumably the reverse situation was also illegitimate in his view); but neither did he think the other domain was useless. He just didn't think it was the business of science. (Metaphysical naturalism, by his lights, would probably be a good example of an abuse of science.)

[Doctor Stochastic]

My perception comes from observing these groups pursuing the same goals and making the same types of comments with regard to science. They need not be explicitly allied but the pursuit of common goals does produce strange alliances.

When I was teaching, the same anti-science comments came from both religious fundamentalist, post modernist liberal arts students, and new age hippies (and a few Luddites). Their actions and beliefs were essentially the same with regard to scientific inquiry.