MIT Study: Tin Foil Hats Amplify Invasive Radio Waves

With no disrespect intended to the legitimate skeptics out there who challenge the government’s official story on one issue or another, today’s Tin Foil Tuesday feature takes a tongue-in-cheek closer look at tin foil hats themselves. An icon associated with paranoia, the tin foil hat is believed to protect the wearer from invasive radio waves by creating a Faraday cage around the skull, preventing aliens, reptilians, the Anunnaki, and others from reading the user’s thoughts.

However, The Atlantic noted the existence of a 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study on the effectiveness of tin foil hats as a Faraday cage. As a matter of fact, aluminum helmets actually amplify radio waves in the frequency range currently used by the government, cell phone companies, and satellites. The study concluded, albeit facetiously, that the FCC and the government must have propagated the myth of the tin foil hat’s effectiveness in order to make it easier to read the thought patterns of those who wear them. Could tin foil hats themselves be a part of a grand conspiracy?

Tin Foil Hats Amplify Radio Waves

Tin foil hats do not create a complete Faraday cage in the same way that a microwave does. The above-linked article by The Atlantic points out that, in order to be effective, the tin foil would need to completely surround the wearer’s skull, which would significantly complicate breathing, seeing, hearing, and speaking. In theory, someone wealthy could develop one with some type of built-in breathing and communications system, which might be more effective, but wrapping one’s head with Reynolds Wrap will do nothing specific to stop the government and aliens from teaming up to wiretap the ole’ dome.

In fact, in the specific frequencies allocated by the FCC, such a device would actually amplify radio waves. From the MIT study, “For all helmets, we noticed a 30 db amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz, regardless of the position of the antenna on the cranium. In addition, all helmets exhibited a marked 20 db attenuation at around 1.5 Ghz, with no significant attenuation beyond 10 db anywhere else… The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, these bands are supposedly reserved for ‘radio location’ (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites… The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology.”

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Why Scan the Brain When the NSA Can Just Tap Your Phone?

On a more serious note, invasive radio waves are unnecessary for tracking the thoughts of people who use smart phones and the internet, as a quick glance at one’s Google search history, Facebook messages, emails, and cell phone geo-location data would give a more accurate picture of one’s thought processes than a direct wiretap into the brain. The National Security Agency has already been caught collecting that type of data on virtually everyone worldwide. If reptilian Anunnaki masterminds wanted to dip into a particular human’s brain, all they would have to do is hack into the NSA’s database.

While no serious skeptic believes in or uses tin foil hats, it’s interesting to note that we have actually reached a moment in history when wearing one would be unnecessary, because the NSA can already read your thoughts off of your smartphone anyway. I would be willing to bet that many of those who issued early warnings that the government might wiretap our cell phones were originally accused of metaphorically wearing tin foil hats. On the other hand, if anyone actually does believe that reptilians are attempting to tap his or her brain, the aluminum foil solution doesn’t prevent that.

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