Mind reading/mind control

[Peter Tomlinson]

Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> Phil wrote:
> 
> 
>> Indeed. Gain, in this context, is passive and is measured with
>> respect to a reference antenna such as a basic dipole.
>> 
>> The increase gain could well have been caused by room reflections
>> (agree with the previous email - this is very poor science) but
>> could also have been caused by the foil hat exhibing antenna gain
>> at certain frequencies. In the case of the latter, I would expect
>> quite subtle modifications to the shape of the hat to radically
>> changes its frequency response, blowing any conspiracy theory right
>> out of the window.
> 
> You missed at least one conspiracy theory - that this "research" is
> actually disinformation designed to reduce the use of tinfoilhats.
> Because tinfoilhats work ...
> 
> ... to prevent brain takeout by aliens, or was it the CIA, or some
> other TLA????? or a FLA????
> 
> ... or against the satellite that beams microwaves into the heads of
> people THEY don't like, just to mess them up and make them lkess
> effebctive at dong whaatebver THEY don't like?
> 
> 
> Can't be too careful.
> 
Yes, but you knew that already, so why should we physicists depart from
being boring geeks?

Peter