Secrecy surrounds safety trials on full-body airport scanner

Tue May 24, 2011 1:23 pm » by **Drjones**

Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
http://www.propublica.org/article/scien ... y-scanners :rtft:

The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what's received in about two minutes of flying. The company that makes them says it's safer than eating a banana.

But some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer say the evidence made public to support those claims is unreliable. And in a new letter sent to White House science adviser John Holdren, they question why the TSA won't make the scanners available for independent testing by outside scientists.

In the most recent letter sent to Holdren on April 28, the professors note that the Johns Hopkins lab didn't test an actual airport machine. Instead, the tests were done on a model built by the manufacturer, Rapiscan, and configured to resemble a system previously tested by the TSA.

The researchers' names have been kept secret, and the report on the tests is so "heavily redacted" that "there is no way to repeat any of these measurements," they wrote.

Great article, spread far and wide, read the comments. :wink:

'Most people are sheeplike. Everyone knows sheep don’t mind radiation,they just follow the one in front of them and go"Baaaaa”. ' :clapper:

'On a recent flight, I sat next to an electronics engineer, who told me that the TSA is going to kill a lot of people with those scanners. I would imagine that the group with the highest death rates will be TSA employees working in the security area. '

'Two-time Pulitzer Prize writer Andrew Schneider wrote a great article that dug into this issue called:'

“No Proof TSA Scanners are Safe”

'Google it and read it.'

Tue May 24, 2011 1:34 pm » by **E6722maj**

'please step through the potentially dangerous device sir'
'why?'
'it's for your safety'

:badair:

Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:07 pm » by **The57ironman**

TSA To Test Body Scanner Operators For Radiation Exposure
But federal agency still refuses to retest machines after cancer warnings

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, January 16, 2012

Following reports of cancer clusters at Boston-Logan Airport, the TSA is set to test its naked body scanner operators for radiation exposure, but still refuses to test the actual machines that thousands of Americans are forced to pass through each day.

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-to-test-bod ... -exposure/