People who suffer from genuine mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, have discussed wearing actual tinfoil hats when dealing with intrusive thoughts and hallucinations.
A study showed, though, that a tinfoil hat actually actually amplifies radio frequencies instead of blocking them. Tinfoil hats are so last season pic. This is not meant to be a formal definition of tinfoil hat like most terms we define on Dictionary. Feedback We've Added New Words! Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. Examples Origin Usage. While the MIT guys' tongue-in-cheek conclusion -- "the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC" -- maybe goes a few steps too far, their study at least shows that foil helmets fail at, and even counteract, their intended purpose.
That, or the students are aliens who fabricated these results in an effort to get you to take your perfectly functional helmet off. A version of this post originally appeared on Mental Floss , an Atlantic partner site.
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