Hoagland's claims irritate me because he is promoting uncritical thinking, ... He doesn't want you to think about what you're seeing. He's trying to bamboozle you into believing what he's saying.

It's pretty common.

Any random set of numbers, when played with as Hoagland did, will yield many coincidental mathematical relationships, ... His mathematical analysis is so full of holes, flaws, and misdirection that it is completely worthless.