TSA and body scanner cancer.

[mirrodie]

CAme across an article about those body scanners and cancer clusters. It mentions EPIC, a public interest research group.

In my google search, one of the links was to a tsa blog debunking the clusters as mere myth.


http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/ba...radiation.html


So while fingers point and evidence is questionable, the only truth still appears that...

we don't know yet for sure how safe those things are.

[emshighway]

There was new articles that there was a "cancer cluster" in Boston but the initial reports personnel of diagnosed with cancer were actually before the scanners were installed. I believe that was the link claiming the cluster as a myth.

There have been several of us who have been pushing for the use of Thermal Scanners which would not emit anything whether radiation or radio waves and would perform the same tasks.

[emshighway]

A new study of airport body scanners by U.S. Army scientists shows that the machines produce a low dose of radiation, supporting Transportation Security Administration claims that a screening is equivalent to the radiation a passenger gets in two minutes of flying.
The scanners, which use X-rays to check for objects hidden under clothing, have been the subject of controversy about how safe they are and whether they create a cancer risk for the traveling public. Although the study is unlikely to douse those concerns, one critic of the machines called it the most reliable test to date.

http://www.propublica.org/article/ne...nners-is-minor#