No Virginia, Tin-Foil Hats Do Not Help....

Half-truths and paranoia can be downright dangerous. Indeed, the few remaining at MIT who possess a sense of humour demonstrate that, far from protecting their wearers against invasions of the mind by Extra-Terrestrials Dr. Evil Abba The Fed The Government, the shiny material may actually aid their invasion by amplifying radio signals. Ever insightful, they recursively hypothesize that the Tin-Foil Hat myth may have actually been promulgated by the evil government itself in order to encourage adherents and thus more easily gain entry.