Checkpoints and Borders Policy Debate - The TSA's Dumb Air-Security Rules Are Not Based on Science

David writes quite well...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tsa-dumb-security-rules-not-science-based

Good article, but I think you'd get better conversation on it in the Policy Debate subforum.

Good article, but I think you'd get better conversation on it in the Policy Debate subforum.Agreed. So, I moved it.

scoow
TS/S co-moderator

David writes quite well...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tsa-dumb-security-rules-not-science-based

Yes but they are based on pseudo-science, or more accurately Voodoo.

Very well put. Will be again completely ignored by the TSA.

Very well put. Will be again completely ignored by the TSA.

Just like they have ignored every other similar study or finding. TSA is about Kabuki Theater and creating the illusion of security, not the deployment of actual effective security.

or more accurately Voodoo.

Why do I get the feeling that there are Haitians all yelling "Whoa! Don't blame us for those TSA goons!"