TINFOIL HAT

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Clothing for the paranoid

TINFOIL hats may protect the brain from dangerous radio frequencies and mind-control rays. Or they may not, according to a group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who tested three standard designs with equipment costing $250,000.
They found the foil actually amplified some radio signals - especially those on frequencies used by the US government - by a factor of up to 100. In summing up, they say:
"It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC [Federal Communications Commission].
"We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings."

[Of course the real problem with the classic tinfoil hat is that wearing one makes you look like a nut.]