Originally Posted by
tsadude1
Even with all of the hundreds of hours of negative TSA media news coverage, you could not tell that many passengers agreed with the opinions stated on this website. I would guess that making Alex Jones the leader did you in.
More agree than you think. The Detroit News had a poll which showed 67% agreed with opinions on this board and I have guests from another state who drove this year instead of flying as usual. 10 Hours. That's 4 fares the airlines gave up. Because of DHS/TSA.
And this just in from the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons:
The Medical Problems of Airport Screening: It’s Not Just the Radiation
The radiation dose is likely the least of the problems with airport screening.
. . .We must not induce unreasoned fear, not even to oppose an outrageous assault on liberty. There is, however, another aspect to the airport scanners. They use an ingenious low-energy backscatter technique, which is apparently wonderful for identifying explosives in cargo. Since the radiation doesn’t penetrate far, it wouldn’t affect an unborn baby. But it does concentrate the dose in the skin.