Actually, I had been really intrigued by the material referenced in the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats", and for a long time I meant to research it but never got around to it.

Then somewhere along the line I found out those two factoids: the one about Ronson and Jones, and also that Ronson wrote the book the movie was based on.

Being a good enough conspiracist to put two and two together, I said to myself, "Well, I really just saved myself a lot of research time on evaluating that material, didn't i?"