Odd this day

4 min readFeb 17, 2023

It’s 17 February! Yes, that’s right — it’s exciting because it’s the 18th anniversary of the publication of On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study by four men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Screenshot of the front page of the paper showing the words ‘On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study’, the names of the authors — Ali Rahimi, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, MIT, and Ben Recht, Jason Taylor, Noah Vawter, all of the Media Laboratory, MIT — plus an image of one of them, a man in glasses, wearing a sensible shirt and sitting in front of a bank of electronic equipment. He is wearing a tin foil hat.

The abstract opens with the words:

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals.

I quote the authors directly, and can only apologise for their spelling (and presumed pronunciation) of the word ‘aluminium’.

Anyway, these public-spirited young men took it upon themselves to help this ‘fringe community’ — or, in their words:

Introduction. It has long been suspected that the government has been using satellites to read and control the minds of certain citizens. The use of aluminum helmets has been a common guerrilla tactic against the government’s invasive tactics

Being at MIT, they were able to use state-of-the-art equipment to test whether tin foil hats are, in fact, effective against the government’s actual and genuine attempts to control our brains with sinister electronic equipment.

Obviously, this technology has now been replaced by 5G, Bill Gates’ EVIL vaccines, and… er, low-emission zones and 15-minute cities. Or something. But, anyway. It’s very important research, because they discovered something DEEPLY DISTURBING.

First, they settled on three different hat designs, to make sure they were doing Proper Science. In each case, I think it’s important to note, they used double layers of foil, to be sure of protection against GOVERNMENT BRAIN MEDDLING.

The three helmet types tested: three photos show a plaster bust with a smile on its face sporting the Classical (a rounded shape that closely follows the contours of a human skull), the Fez (a more cylindrical hat), and the Centurion (which has a central ‘fin’)

Then they assembled The Proper Equipment, like scientists do.

Image shows a bank of electronic equipment, headed: The experimental apparatus, including a data recording laptop, a $250,000 network analyser, and antennae, and captioned: A network analyser (Agilent 8714ET) and a directional antenna measured and plotted the signals.

Then, and only then, was it Science Time.

Text reads: “The receiver antenna was placed at various places on the cranium of 4 different subjects: the frontal, occipital and parietal lobes. Once with the helmet off and once with the helmet on. The network analyzer plotted the attenuation betwen the signals in these two settings at different frequencies, from 10Khz to 3 Ghz. Figure 4 shows a typical plot of the attenuation at different frequencies.” There is an image, captioned “A typical attenuation trace form the network analyser”

Then the results, which are GENUINELY HORRIFYING.

Results paragraph reads: For all helmets, we noticed a 30 db amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz, regardless of the position of the antenna on the cranium. In addition, all helmets exhibited a marked 20 db attenuation at around 1.5 Ghz, with no significant attenuation beyond 10 db anywhere else.

No, I don’t understand a solitary word of that, either, but thankfully there’s a translation (although YOU WON’T LIKE IT):

Conclusion reads: The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ‘’radio location’’ (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It seems tin foil hats can actually amplify signals from not only the government but also MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS! And…

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 involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

Yes, that’s right. The government put the idea of tin foil hats into our heads in order to make us MORE SUSCEPTIBLE to their evil space rays.

OR DID THEY…? Zapato Productions Intradimensional thinks otherwise:

ZPi blog on AFDB effectiveness: A recent MIT study [1] calls into question the effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies. However, there are serious flaws in this study, not the least of which is a complete mischaracterization of the process of psychotronic mind control. I theorize that the study is, in fact, NWO propaganda designed to spread FUD against deflector beanie technology, and aluminum shielding in general, in order to disembeanie paranoids, leaving them open to mind control.

Zapato suggests that these four apparently helpful scientists are actually in the pay of the New World Order, deliberately mischaracterising the way the government controls our brains, to trick us into putting our tin foil to culinary use, like fools!

Having said that, Lyle Zapato, author of that blog, is the pseudonym of a ‘humor writer’, and the MIT scientist guys photographed each other doing dry runs of the experiment in a way that looks suspiciously like Dicking About.

Oh, who can we trust? WHO? It seems we’ll all just have to watch GB News and get that perfectly normal man Neil Oliver to tell us the truth that no one else dares to speak. WEARING OUR HATS! JUST IN CASE!

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