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That New Study that Confirms Safety of Scanners? FAKE

April 6, 2011 By

Last week there was a flurry of news stories about a new “study” on the safety of the TSA’s x-ray scanners. “New Health Study Finds Airport Scanners Safe.” Airport Scanners Appear Safe, Study Finds Radiation from airport scanners very low: study Airport Scanners Radiation Risk ‘Extremely Low,’ New Research Shows But these headlines are complete [...]

Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: radiation, safe, scanners, TSA

Doctors without Scanners: What Doctors do at Airport Checkpoints

April 2, 2011 By

Show me all the TSA studies you want, when medical doctors opt out of the scanners it sends a powerful message. And what is it with CNN pimping Sanjay Gupta all the time? When he was limited to doing medical commentary on CNN, he was credible. Not anymore. So why quote him as a doctor [...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: doctors, radiation, Sanjay Gupta, TSA

We Won’t Fly Supports Radiation Testing for TSA employees

March 29, 2011 By

We Won’t Fly has been concerned about TSA employees’ exposure to radiation in the course of their jobs since we opened for business back in Novemeber of 2010. So what has taken this union so long? When your critics are more concerned about you than your union, something is wrong.

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TSA won’t Retest Scanner Radiation until MAY

March 17, 2011 By

What a disaster for the TSA that the first round of radiation tests look bad for them. And now they won’t retest them until May? So we may have to wait 2 months for them to prove the first tests were wrong but they refuse to protect the traveling public in the meantime? Is there [...]

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TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests

March 15, 2011 By

Why am I not surprised that the TSA can’t handle basic ‘rithmetic?

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TSA Employees Finally Catch on to the Radiation Risk

December 8, 2010 By
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USA Today reports that the TSA has failed to identify machines (not just scanners) that are emitting too much radiation. The TSA is simply not up to the job. If they couldn’t be trusted with baggage checking machines, how can we trust them to keep the radiation from the naked body scanners under control? When [...]

Filed Under: Resistance Tagged With: radiation, TSA, TSO

How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA

November 29, 2010 By
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MIT’s Technology Review reports that the terahertz waves used in TSA scanners can damage DNA.

Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: DNA, MIT, radiation, scanners, science, terahertz