Full-Body Scanners to Fry Travelers With Radiation

[KenH]

"Virtually all passengers and airline crews who pass through airport screening checkpoints in the U.S. may soon be forced to submit to compulsory, whole-body X-ray exposure. Some fliers could be “fried” several times in one day. Frequent fliers could get hit hundreds of times each year. Pregnant women, infants, the chronically ill and immune suppressed would get the rays. Grateful herds of traveling livestock, prodded by TSA drovers through federally-funded “nuke chutes,” are expected to believe Hollowell’s scientifically unsupported assertion that ionizing radiation delivered via backscatter will be “about the same as sunshine.”

Officials must naturally defend compulsory passenger X-rays as harmless. But they are signing no guarantees because ionizing radiation in the X-ray spectrum damages and mutates both chromosomal DNA and structural proteins in human cells. If this damage is not repaired, it can lead to cancer. New research shows that even very low doses of X-ray can delay or prevent cellular repair of damaged DNA, raising questions about the safety of routine medical X-rays. Unborn babies can become grotesquely disfigured if their mothers are irradiated during pregnancy. Heavily X- rayed persons of childbearing age can sustain chromosomal damage, endangering offspring. Radiation damage is cumulative and each successive dose builds upon the cellular mutation caused by the last. It can take years for radiation damage to manifest pathology."

- more at www.prisonplanet.com/full-body-scanners-to-fry-travelers-with-radiation.html

 

[Salty]

and if a vet has shrapnel left in his body from a wartime injury....

 

[NiteShift]

If the alternative is strip search for everyone, I'd take my chances with the scan.

 

[Walguy]

I can assure you that no one will be fried by these devices.



It will be more like being microwaved...

 

[Deacon]

The article is a lot of un-informed hype... just scare tactics for the sheep.

I've been involved with cardiology scanning for more than 20 years in the areas of cardiac catheterization (fluoroscopy) and nuclear scanning (SPECT).
It's considered to be a field where a medical workers exposure to radiation is highest.
We have to be vigilant to monitor and limit our exposure levels.

That being said, the full-body-scanners present a low-level, non-penetrating form of x-ray that performs a task without excessive exposure.
The exposure levels are comparable to five minutes in the sun -think of that next time you go to the beach.
But there is a difference, both whole-body scanners and background radiation expose a large body surface area to low-level radiation.
The difference being that background radiation has slightly higher x-ray energy level and penetrates deeper into the body.

Manufacturers say that frequent flyers can have 500 scans/year before levels of radiation become a concern. That's a whole lot of flying.

Rob

 

[KenH]

I guess we'll see the results in 10-20 years from those repeatedly exposed to these contraptions at airports. Then we'll know if there was a danger or not to people. Of course, if there is it will be too late for those exposed to these things.

 

[Marcia]

The level of radiation in the scanners is no more than what the average person gets each day in normal life.

People are actually more concerned about the privacy issue.

 

[Salty]

Manufacturers say that frequent flyers can have 500 scans/year before levels of radiation become a concern. That's a whole lot of flying.

Rob

Lets keep an eye on Professional sports teams. How many flights does a professional baseball or basketball player make in a year.

Many business professionals are liable to fly 3 or 4 times a week. That may only be 200 scans a year, but year in year out....

and we are only specuating....

Salty

 

[Mexdeaf]

I'll be concerned when they start setting them up at state lines. I drive everywhere that I can.

 

[Jon-Marc]

Since I don't travel, I won't have to worry about it--even if I was one to worry.

 

[Nonsequitur]

The level of radiation in the scanners is no more than what the average person gets each day in normal life.

People are actually more concerned about the privacy issue.

Which is?.........

 

[Nonsequitur]

I guess we'll see the results in 10-20 years from those repeatedly exposed to these contraptions at airports. Then we'll know if there was a danger or not to people. Of course, if there is it will be too late for those exposed to these things.

Radiation is our friend. Just ask the Japanese.

 

[poncho]

The article is a lot of un-informed hype... just scare tactics for the sheep.

I've been involved with cardiology scanning for more than 20 years in the areas of cardiac catheterization (fluoroscopy) and nuclear scanning (SPECT).
It's considered to be a field where a medical workers exposure to radiation is highest.
We have to be vigilant to monitor and limit our exposure levels.

That being said, the full-body-scanners present a low-level, non-penetrating form of x-ray that performs a task without excessive exposure.
The exposure levels are comparable to five minutes in the sun -think of that next time you go to the beach.
But there is a difference, both whole-body scanners and background radiation expose a large body surface area to low-level radiation.
The difference being that background radiation has slightly higher x-ray energy level and penetrates deeper into the body.

Manufacturers say that frequent flyers can have 500 scans/year before levels of radiation become a concern. That's a whole lot of flying.

Rob

Who cares about the machines. We should all be glad they aren't tatooing us like cattle and making us walk through the terminals naked. Yet. For national security of course.

Forget about modesty folks, just form the parade line over there, single file if you please and walk slowly through this dark opening to the plane and be seated in your assigned comfort cell for the duration of your flight. Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for all your cooperation from The Establishment.

And of course we'd agree to all this too because the kind hearted central planners are experts and know just what to do to keep us all safe.

Say Cheeze! Your full naked body scan is now underway. Don't worry, no one will ever see this on You Tube or America's Funniest Videos!

We Promise! Trust Us!

 

[Johnv]

The level of radiation in the scanners is no more than what the average person gets each day in normal life.

Less than that. The level of radiation in the scanners is less than that in a room lit by incandescent light bulbs. You will be exposed to more radiation in the walk from your car to the security line than you will in one of these scanners.

People are actually more concerned about the privacy issue.

As a seasoned business traveller, I can tell you that there's no such thing as privacy if you're willing to get on an airplane. I have no problems whatsoever with these scanners. I'll be the first to go through them if it makes everyone else safer.

 

[Marcia]

Which is?.........

Are you asking why it violates privacy? It's because it shows your body under the clothes.

There was a big article on this in Today's Washington Post. They have photos. They said the person's face would be blurred and that the scanner would not be at the checkpoint. He/she would be elsewhere and communicate with a TSA person at the checkpoint. The photos would be erased and deleted.

 

[Marcia]

As a seasoned business traveller, I can tell you that there's no such thing as privacy if you're willing to get on an airplane. I have no problems whatsoever with these scanners. I'll be the first to go through them if it makes everyone else safer.

I would expect a man to feel that way. Women feel a little more concerned about it.

 

[Nonsequitur]

Are you asking why it violates privacy? It's because it shows your body under the clothes.

There was a big article on this in Today's Washington Post. They have photos. They said the person's face would be blurred and that the scanner would not be at the checkpoint. He/she would be elsewhere and communicate with a TSA person at the checkpoint. The photos would be erased and deleted.

I meant to both questions.
I agree with what you said though.:thumbsup:

 

[carpro]

it can lead to cancer. [/B]
www.prisonplanet.com/full-body-scanners-to-fry-travelers-with-radiation.html

Doesn't everything?

I also heard that spending too much time reading the bilge on prison planet will fry your brain or turn you into a paranoid schizo.

 

[KenH]

The photos would be erased and deleted.

And we are to believe the government????

 

[Johnv]

I would expect a man to feel that way. Women feel a little more concerned about it.

Then women shouldn't fly. Whether you're a man or a woman, there's no such thing as privacy when flying.