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…
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