Tin Foil Hats May Be Worthless or Even Harmful

[crusader rabbit]

Researchers now claim tin foil hats may actually increase the govt's ability to pick up or control our thoughts.

See:  http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/tin-foil-hats-actually-make-it-easier-for-the-government-to-track-your-thoughts/262998/

 

Let's say some malevolent group -- the government, powerful corporations, extraterrestrials -- really is trying to read and/or control your thoughts with radio waves. Would the preferred headgear of the paranoid, a foil helmet, really keep The Man and alien overlords out of our brains?

The scientific reasoning behind the foil helmet is that it acts as a Faraday cage, an enclosure made up of a conducting material that shields its interior from external electrostatic charges and electromagnetic radiation by distributing them around its exterior and dissipating them. While sometimes these enclosures are actual cages, they come in many forms, and most of us have probably dealt with one type or another. Elevators, the scan rooms that MRI machines sit in, "booster bags" that shoplifters sometimes use to circumvent electronic security tags, cables like USB or TV coaxial cables, and even the typical household microwave all provide shielding as Faraday cages.

While the underlying concept is good, the typical foil helmet fails in design and execution. An effective Faraday cage fully encloses whatever it's shielding, but a helmet that doesn't fully cover the head doesn't fully protect it. If the helmet is designed or worn with a loose fit, radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation can still get up underneath the brim from below and reveal your innermost thoughts to the reptilian humanoids or the Bilderberg Group.

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More at link.

I wonder if there's a difference between using Reynolds Wrap vs generic.  Anyway, my hat's in  the trash until I see some more research.  And the neighbors just started to accept me with my hat on...  Sheesh!

Crusader

[fightingquaker13]

Rowaje will be crushed.
FQ13

[Pecos Bill]

Oh we're in trouble! The infamous Bilderberg Group is still working! They stopped the Martians with germ warfare and they're still after us! Duck and cover, guys!

[Solus]

Chit....I just invested heavily in Reynolds 

[deepwater]

it's all a conspiracy to get you to remove your hats. duh...

deep

[Sponsor]

[crusader rabbit]

it's all a conspiracy to get you to remove your hats. duh...

deep

I have hope for the future, Deep.  Thanks

Crusader

[RTFM]

You're obviously doing it wrong... the hats are fine as long as you add the nuclear blass' goggles and put ya' fingahs' in ya' eahs'

Then the hat is still effective.

Duuuuhhhhhhhhh

[Jrlobo]

The only thing that keeps the government from reading your thoughts is a beard and carrying a gun. That way they shoot you first and then try to read your mind...only our government would think that way. Meanwhile, another border patrol agent has been killed in AZ. Was he sporting a goatee?

[tombogan03884]

The only thing that keeps the government from reading your thoughts is a beard and carrying a gun. That way they shoot you first and then try to read your mind...only our government would think that way. Meanwhile, another border patrol agent has been killed in AZ. Was he sporting a goatee?

Does Holder have an alibi ?

[Pecos Bill]

Does Holder have an alibi ?

Holder doesn't need an alibi. He has Presidential Immunity.