# MIT take on some REAL science.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mit-take-on-some-real-science/330570>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mit-take-on-some-real-science/330570 "2005-11-11T14:16:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mit-take-on-some-real-science/330570/1 "2005-11-11T14:16:25Z")

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[This](http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=13461&cid=3&cname=Technology) is more like it:

“Engineers at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology have published results showing that tinfoil helmets, prized in many circles for an assumed capacity to resist mind control rays from aliens and governments, may actually amplify the controlling signals.”

Good work team.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mit-take-on-some-real-science/330570/2 "2005-11-11T14:18:07Z")

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Even better [here](http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/) is this possible Nobel prize winning research.