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There is actually a Wiki on this phenomena Wiki Tinfoil Hat entry
I think this subject should be cross referenced with psychology, which I am also interested in.
Note in the article that "Belief in the effectiveness of tin-foil hats is popularly linked to mental illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia"

Note the use of the word popular (i.e. pop psychology)
do you think an average reader would catch that?
Perhaps Chris Carter is right when he claims that "paranoia is simply a higher level of consciousness" (quote paraphrased from memory)

"There is a small amount of truth or reason to be found in the rationale for a tin-foil hat. A well constructed tin-foil enclosure would approximate a Faraday cage, reducing the amount of (notionally harmless) radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation inside. A common high school physics demonstration involves placing an AM radio on tinfoil, and then covering the radio with a metal bucket. This leads to a noticeable reduction in signal strength. The efficiency of such an enclosure in blocking such radiation depends on the thickness of the tin-foil, as dictated by the skin depth, the distance the radiation can propagate in a particular non-ideal conductor. For half-millimeter-thick tin-foil, radiation above about 20 kHz (i.e., including both AM and FM bands) would be partially blocked.[7]

The effectiveness of the tin-foil hat as an electromagnetic shield for stopping radio waves is greatly reduced by the fact that it is not a complete enclosure. Placing an AM radio under a metal bucket without a conductive layer underneath demonstrates the relative ineffectiveness of such a setup. Indeed, because the effect of an ungrounded Faraday cage is to partially reflect the incident radiation, a radio wave that is incident on the inner surface of the hat (i.e., coming from underneath the hat-wearer) would be reflected and partially 'focused' towards the user's brain. While tin-foil hats may have originated in some understanding of the Faraday cage effect, the use of such a hat to attenuate radio waves belongs properly to the realm of pseudoscience.

A (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) study by graduate students at MIT determined that a tin-foil hat could either amplify or attenuate incoming radiation depending on frequency;[8] the effect was observed to be roughly independent of the relative placement of the wearer and radiation source. Note that at GHz wavelengths, the skin depth is less than the thickness of even the thinnest foil.

Tin foil hats are seen by some as a protective measure against the effects of EMR, or electro magnetic radiation. At this time, no link has been verifiably proven between EMR exposure and subsequent ill health, however EMR exposure has many alleged effects.[9]"

as an Aside...
I will fix this framing issue when I get together with my Cyber Kung Fu Master
This is good getting the bugs out as a beta
also I will add a comments section for input on annoying things like this

pps
I will look into the allowances for HTML and whether it is a good Idea to allow registered users to mess with it