* Kentaro Mori, at the excellent skeptical blog, FORGETOMORI, writes regularly on the topic.

These poor dimwits seem to fail to understand that just because something looks like fossilized wood, a running bigfoot, an Egyptian sculpture, or a footprint, does not mean they are one. What it means is that the human brain can find patterns even where there are none.

Objectively speaking, there are no ‘pyramids’ or ‘faces’ or ‘cities’ in the NASA or JPL photos of Mars, just some blobs and blurry rock piles. And speaking of blobs and blurs, do you also remember how psychologists used to often ask their clients to interpret what they think they saw in a random blotch of smeared ink called a Rorschach test? Well I often wondered what a mathematician or a physicist might see in a random blotch of smeared rock piles in a photo of Mars surface and apparently what they might see is called “hyperdimensional physics” by some! I never understood why Richard Hoagland calls his alleged theory, “physics”, when it sounds more like an ‘art’ than a science — not at all too much unlike the art of fortunetelling, where a make believe psychic takes one look at the lines on your hand and then proceeds to tell you your ‘future’ from them.