tinfoil hattery

Delusional suspicion mindset

Tinfoil hattery is belief in conspiracy theories or paranoid speculation, from the notion that a hat made of aluminum foil could block government mind-control rays.

The term mocks such thinking as delusional: The discussion devolved into tinfoil hattery about chemtrails and 5G towers.

Related forms include tinfoil hat and tinfoil hatter.

Related

conspiracy · mistrust · pseudoscience · rumor · QAnon · flat earth · mind control · jet fuel · Counterculture · chemtrails · sheeple · deep state · false flag · crisis actor · Alex Jones · red pill · Libertarianism · reptilians

Opposites
epistemic stance

tinfoil hatterycritical thinking

Objective evaluation of information

evidence-based reasoning · scientific literacy · empiricism · fact-checking · peer review

mental disposition

tinfoil hatterylevel-headedness

Balanced, rational temperament

groundedness · rationality · sanity · sobriety · pragmatism

social-epistemic trust

tinfoil hatterycredulity

Uncritical acceptance of claims

conformism · orthodoxy · gullibility · blind faith

Family

tinfoil, hatter, foil, hatted, hatting, foils, foiled, foiling, tinned

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Profile
Used worldwide · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G