Originally Posted by WillCAD

I haven't seen any studies about the negative effects of microwave radiation on human DNA; could you point some out for me? It would only reinforce a point that I tried to make early on in this debacle to some AFS folks, which is that MMW scanners use exactly the same form of energy that a microwave oven uses to cook food. But the argument didn't holt weight with them.

Anyway, I only fly for vacation, and that's only once or twice per year, almost always to Orlando. The airports I use, BWI and MCO, both have MMW, not backscatter, and on my last trip MCO wasn't using them as primary but they were at BWI, so I only got it one way. So basically, I've only been nuked once, and there is at least a slim chance that I can avoid it this year, too.

So, for the moment at least, the repugnancy of these scanners is not sufficient to prevent me from flying, but the repugnancy of a pat-down IS. I'll swallow my pride and endure the one or two scans per year until the public rises up or the SCOTUS strikes the scanners down, but I will NOT allow them to touch me, ever, period.