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Old 05-08-2012, 01:14 PM
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per wikipedia:

"The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats (shielding the brain) has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists."

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