# Zee tinfoil hats! Zey do nothing!!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zee-tinfoil-hats-zey-do-nothing/330546 "2005-11-11T06:39:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zee-tinfoil-hats-zey-do-nothing/330546/1 "2005-11-11T06:39:25Z")

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[Link](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/tinfoil_hats_as_government_plot/)

Instead of mocking those of dubious mental capacity as “wearing tinfoil hats”, we must recognize that they are in fact _in league_ with the Black Helicopters, not hiding from them, as previously thought!

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zee-tinfoil-hats-zey-do-nothing/330546/2 "2005-11-11T08:12:48Z")

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Fffft. Old news. It’s commonsensical that such a chapeau would act as an antenna.

What nobody talks about is that this is solid evidence for a mind-control conspiracy.

Think about it: Do you know a single person whose behaviour didn’t become increasingly bizarre after they were tricked into putting on a tin-foil beanie to “block out” the mind-control signals? _Q.E.D._

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zee-tinfoil-hats-zey-do-nothing/330546/3 "2005-11-11T18:19:49Z")

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The Perfect Master [speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000609.html).

> [@Cecil Adams](#):
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> If, like a dork (excuse me, Ms. Starfire, but one must call a spade a spade), you cover only a portion of yourself with the helmet, not only will the cage not shield you, the edges of the helmet will serve as an antenna, broadcasting your innermost thoughts (or electromagnetic traces thereof) to the world.

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So this is where the voices in my head come from!