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Tin Foil Hats Protect You From Mind Control?


Aluminum Foil Hats!
Do Tin Foil Hats Protect You From Mind Control? These Folks Think So.
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Seems some folks have got to thinking that wearing ghats made from aluminum foil can protect them from some sort of devious mind control techniques practiced by the government and/or aliens.





How to create and attach a DTV converter box to your aluminum foil helmet

Don't get caught unprotected June 12, when digital television receivers will begin picking up brainwaves with higher-frequency energy blasts.
While an aluminum foil helmet was sufficient protection during the age of analog broadcasts, new digital transmission is much more powerful, rendering regular 1-ply helmets USELESS.


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The tinfoil hat is a sort of mocking symbol of paranoia and conspiracy theory advocacy, derived by the use of some paranoid schizophrenics with persecution and mind control delusions of metal foil hats to protect them from perceived mind control rays (no, seriously, but do have some sympathy, unless they get into office). Despite the name "tinfoil", the hats are almost universally made from aluminum in the Americas or aluminium in the rest of the world.


He's happy because he knows that the government won't be reading his thoughts today.
The term came about because of serious suggestions by true believers that constructing a simple hat out of aluminum foil could protect their brains from being bombarded with mind control rays or whatever it was they were paranoid about (essentially, it is a very lame interpretation of how a Faraday Cage works). The idea was so laughable that it quickly took on a life of its own as a sarcastic way of referring to any especially preposterous notion that usually involves a mixture of paranoia with pseudoscience.
"And just because someone else also has a tinfoil hat on doesn't make yours any less shiny." --Gulik pwning TmtamesP[1]

Tin foil hat


A tin foil hat is a piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of aluminum foil or similar material. Alternatively it may be a conventional hat lined with foil. One may wear the hat in the belief that it acts to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading; or attempt to limit the transmission of voices directly into the brain.
The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.

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[edit] Origin of concept

The concept was mentioned in a science fiction story by Julian Huxley, "The Tissue-Culture King", first published in 1927, in which the protagonist discovers that "caps of metal foil" can be used to block the effects of telepathy. [1]
Since then, the usage of the term has been associated with paranoia and conspiracy theories. The supposed reasons for their use include the prevention of perceived harassment from governments, spies or paranormal beings. These draw on the stereotypical images of mind control operating by ESP or technological means, like microwave radiation; belief in their necessity is popularly associated with paranoia.[2]

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  1. ^ Huxley, Julian (1927). The Tissue-Culture King. "Well, we had discovered that metal was relatively impervious to the telepathic effect, and had prepared for ourselves a sort of tin pulpit, behind which we could stand while conducting experiments. This, combined with caps of metal foil, enormously reduced the effects on ourselves."
  2. ^ "Hey Crazy--Get a New Hat". Bostonist. 15 November 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  3. ^ Neurophysiologic effects of Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation, Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. 55, no. 11,. December, 1979. p. 1079–1093.
  4. ^ Jackson, John David (1998). Classical Electrodynamics. Wiley Press. ISBN 047130932X.
  5. ^ Rahimi, Ali; Ben Recht, Jason Taylor, Noah Vawter (17 February 2005). "On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets". Ali Rahimi.
  6. ^ http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/skindepth.cfm
  7. ^ Lean, Geoffrey (2006-05-07). "Electronic smog - Environment - The Independent". London: News.independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
  8. ^ "Safety and Health Topics: Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation - Health Effects". Osha.gov. Retrieved 2009-06-09.[dead link]
  9. ^ a b Elder, Joe A.; Chou, C.K. (2003). "Auditory response to pulsed radiofrequency energy". Bioelectromagnetics (Wiley-Liss) 24 (S6): S162–73. doi:10.1002/bem.10163. ISSN 0197-8462. PMID 14628312.
  10. ^ "Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons". Nonlethal Technologies – Worldwide. National Ground Intelligence Center. 1998.
  11. ^ US 3393279, "Nervous system excitation"
  12. ^ US 3951134, "Remotely monitoring and altering brain waves"

tinfoil hat, n. : Oxford English Dictionary



tinfoil hat, n. :

(via Oxford English Dictionary.)
The earliest cited use of the term in the OED is from 1982, though the concept has been around much longer – since a 1927 science fiction story, according to the Wikipedia entry.

Be sure to check out The Tinfoil Hat Song. If that speaks to you, you might want to get Tinfoil Hat Linux. You might also want to read “MIT Researchers Claim Tin-Foil Hats Don’t Stop Government Mind Control Rays.”

Myself, I’ll stick to my tinfoil-lined duct tape wallet for the time-being. Aliens and men in black may be scary, but ID snafflers seem like a more real and present danger. How To Make A RFID Blocking Wallet.

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