Governments Quickly Dismissed Cancer Concerns To Roll Out Airport X-Ray Scanners

 

'One after another, experts convened by health authorities raised questions about X-Ray machines because they violated a longstanding principle in radiation safety -- that humans shouldn’t be X-rayed unless there is a medical benefit.
They've been approved all over the world. The U.S., U.K., Russia, Australia, Europe and Canada. Scanners which have potentially devastating health effects have received the blessing of top governments.'

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New Documents Prove TSA “Mischaracterized” Safety Aspects Of Full Body Scanners

 

'However, yet another document obtained and released by EPIC now shows that a Johns Hopkins study actually revealed that radiation zones around body scanners could exceed the “General Public Dose Limit.”

At the time we pointed out that Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins school of medicine had publicly stated two days previously that “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays”.

“…we have a situation at the airports where people are so eager to fly that they will risk their lives in this manner,” Love said.

In addition, several other scientists have continued to speak out over the health hazards associated with the x-ray technology, noting that the body scanners are far from safe.'


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Body Scanners Increase Privacy, Says Corporate Media

'With the resistance to naked body scanners in airports building, the corporate media is now claiming that technology which allows fat TSA thugs sitting in back rooms to ogle your naked daughter actually “enhances privacy”.

In our Orwellian brave new world where down is the new up, University of Ottawa professor Mark Salter gushes over the virtual strip searches with a gusto that makes you wonder whether he’s on the same payroll as people like Michael Chertoff, who have been aggressively promoting the scanners they are invested in as a solution to the underwear bomber threat, no matter that such scanners would not even have stopped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding Flight 253.'

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