I am calling B.S. on this. First of all cancer due to exposure to radiation takes years to surface; how long have we installed these scanners? Second, the radiation dosage due to these scanners are thousand times less than the risk level. Radiation emitted by dental scanner are different in strength and if I have to guess, they are stronger. Babies and pregnant women are at more risk and I wouldn’t take them through them but for everybody else, I don’t see much issue…as long as you don’t take an airplane everyweek. If you have a choice then by all means avoid it (why take a chance right), don’t go out of your way to skip them though.

Stiffler · Jun 29, 2011 8:31 AM

"cancer due to exposure to radiation takes years to surface; how long have we installed these scanners" These scanners are installed recently probably a year or less and already many TSA agents have been "falling victims of cancer" as revealed by theTSA documents obtained after gruelling law suits by EPIC. So you could imagine the serious consequences of these scanners. Stiffler bro, I ask you to take a caution before you decide to enter those Backscatter X-Ray. If you don't love your testiclces, then that's another thing. Please folks go through manual pat downs. These things are not safe. "A team of scientists from the University of California San Francisco have written a letter to the White House warning that the scanners present – above and beyond the risks to the general population – "potential serious health risks" to certain segments of society, such as the elderly and the pregnant. "There is good reason to believe that these scanners will increase the risk of cancer to children and other vulnerable populations," say the cosigners of the letter, which include experts in biochemistry, imaging, X-rays and cancer research. "We are unanimous in believing that the potential health consequences need to be rigorously studied before these scanners are adopted." "The X-ray dose from these devices has often been compared in the media to the cosmic ray exposure inherent to airplane travel or that of a chest X-ray," the professors' letter states. "However, this comparison is very misleading: Both the air travel cosmic ray exposure and chest X-rays have much higher X-ray energies, and the health consequences are appropriately understood in terms of the whole body volume dose. In contrast, these new airport scanners are largely depositing their energy into the skin and immediately adjacent tissue, and since this is such a small fraction of body weight/volume, possibly by one to two orders of magnitude, the real dose to the skin is now high." The professors are calling on the administration to specifically reexamine potential risks to the following groups:     Older travelers, those greater than 65 years of age, who may be at particular risk from the mutagenic effects of the X-rays;     A fraction of the female population especially sensitive to mutagenesis-provoking radiation leading to breast cancer, women typically exempted from X-ray mammograms, for example;     The population of immuno-compromised individuals, such as HIV and cancer Patients;     Children and adolescents;     Pregnant women and their unborn children;     And men in general, because of the proximity of the testicles to skin, which is most highly effected by the backscatter rays. Read the Original Letter here. http://www.npr.org/assets/news...

Nas · Jun 29, 2011 9:28 AM

Nas bro, I do love them..I just don't want TSA to love and feel them..if you know my gist. I rather go through the scanner.

Stiffler · Jun 29, 2011 11:39 AM

Yea bro, These criminals give us a choice, which is not really a choice. Either fry up in radiation or get your testicles groped. I will be travelling soon and I am planning to wear a thin under vest and a brief but nothing like this gentleman. US Airways lets man fly wearing women's panties Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/201... Michael Moore “Pretty Sure” He Experienced Erection During TSA Pat-Down MAURY POVICH:  So what happened? Did you get fondled? MICHAEL MOORE:  Oh did I get fondled! Let me put it this way Maury, I’m pretty sure there was an erection. (The audience groaned again.) MAURY POVICH:  (With a shocked expression) You are not telling me that you got an erection when airline security was patting you down! MICHAEL MOORE:  Oh yeah I am! MAURY POVICH:   Wait a minute…. pretty sure? MICHAEL MOORE:  Well, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it! Hell, it’s been years since I’ve seen anything below my stomach, so I’m just going by memory. But from what I do recall, I’m pretty sure I experienced an erection when they patted me down Oh God, whatever is happening to this "Land of Free and Home of Brave" !!! These sick pedophiles TSA agents are destroying this country. God please bless this country back to it's glory.

Nas · Jun 29, 2011 12:02 PM

yo aru kehi hoina, kaam napayeka harule time pass garna gareko halla ho. tyo body scanner le emit garne radiation dose is not significant. it's similar or even less compared to radiation doses we get in our daily work-environments. cell phones, radio waves, sunlight, etc bata jati radiation aauchha, tyo scanner le ni tyatinai radiation falchha. nachahido kurako thulo issue banayeka matra hun kaam napayekaharule. genetically modified food products ramro hudaina, khanu hunna bhanne manchheharu jastai hun yiniharu pani. manchheharu SCID mice jasta bahyeka bhaye problem hunthyo, tara tyo machineko radiationle thorai cell haruko DNA double strand break gardaima cancer hunchha, manchhe marihalchha bhanne hudaina k! immune system, DNA repair mechanism, etc jasta kura k ka laagi? beachma gayera nangai sutera kallai bhayera dadhna chahi hune, melanoma ko baal chhaina. ani tyo naathe scanner le chahi cancer bhayera manchhe marne re? 50% khaira haruko dimag chaak ma hunchha bhanthe, ho raichha! goo bharya dimagle bhutro ramro sochthyo!

Drkanchho · Jun 29, 2011 1:08 PM