Or this was the real terrorist plot. Make the government spend billions on body scanners to cause everyone (TSA and flyers) to get cancer! Kill the infidels with their own radiation! Muuwaahaahaahaa! Ingenious, isn’t it, Mr. Bond?
In a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC has just obtained documents concerning the radiation risks of TSA’s airport body scanner program. The documents include agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs, and results of some radiation tests. One document set reveals that even after TSA employees identified cancer clusters possibly linked to radiation exposure, the agency failed to issue employees dosimeters – safety devices that could assess the level of radiation exposure. Another document indicates that the DHS mischaracterized the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stating that NIST “affirmed the safety” of full body scanners. The documents obtained by EPIC reveal that NIST disputed that characterization and stated that the Institute did not, in fact, test the devices. Also, a Johns Hopkins University study revealed that radiation zones around body scanners could exceed the “General Public Dose Limit.”
>>> Kill the infidels with their own radiation! Muuwaahaahaahaa! Ingenious, isn’t it,
These are real people getting real cancer. Not that funny.
In any regards, it seems WAY to early for cancer to be showing up.
I wonder what leaks out from the baggage x-ray machines.
In # 19 Zamir said: TSA agents will now start developing superpowers.
I don’t know about super powers but they will be able to glow in the dark…
Well, 19 has it more or less right, though I’m not quite so evil.
All that needs to be done to stop this non sense is for all you morons to stop flying for a week or so. Since you can’t give up your addition to air travel for even a few days, you should suffer the consequences and stop bitching.
But, as far as it goes, 2 years is enough time for some types of cancers to start showing up due to radiation exposure. Lots of variables though. How many cancers, what kind, how old are the victims, how much radiation for how much time.
It DOES remind one of the shoe store flouroscopes that they used to have. Bad enough for the customers, but the sales people who were around the things all day every day are the ones that really tended to get sick.
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm
In # 20 ggore said: This is WAY too soon for anything to show up that is anywhere close to be called a pattern
You are assuming that ionizing radiation has the same distribution patterns as naturally occurring diseases. It doesn’t.
It doesn’t have the same infection, incubation or maturation processes.
The sources are known and there are no affects beyond the TSA staff. Individuals going through may get minimum doses but the cumulative dose absorbed by TSA staff may amount to many milli-Sieverts per hour.
The detection of clusters around the equipment can be done down to the pinpointing of a single defective machine within hours of the original report of someone showing the symptoms of radiation sickness.
In addition to wearing a radiologica badge, if you want to know whether the scanner is safe, carry a small fluorescent tube with you when you passing through. If it starts to glow, its not safe and you need to back away now!
The body scanner are ridiculous overkill anyway. Metal detectors sense 99% of any non-explosive weaponry, like knives. So why is a scanner needed? And a chemical sniffer, hooked up to the scanner chamber, would detect explosive residue, that visual scanner monitoring would miss. And NO radiation hazard would result. But I suppose the xray scanner was a more expensive sell. So they got approved, over chemical sniffing. Dumb!
Give them all a dosimeter and some full strength hemp oil, explain that the dosimeter will show them how their govt is trying to kill them.
and the hemp oil will bring them back to health, and in some cases will kill any tumors. it also might make them chill the fluck out.
rumor and anecdotal evidence has it that the weed also prevents brainwashing in some cases. Now that’s a scary thought for the govt.
google “run from the cure” for more info
>> # 25 msbpodcast
>> if you want to know whether the scanner is safe, carry a small fluorescent tube with you when you passing through. If it starts to glow, its not safe and you need to back away now!
What a fantastic idea!
But, better than back away, get it on video and post it on YouTube.
You might get arrested by TSA in the process but it would be worth the millions of hits it would get.
At least it might make people think twice before signing up with the TSA. Sure, you get to grope and humiliate who you want all day and see nude pix on the x-ray screens but you might get cancer. I feel sort of bad for friends and family of TSA agents with cancer but karma’s a bitch.