Originally Posted by
Caradoc
They're lost causes. For whatever reason, they've decided that it's perfectly reasonable to put their personal safety into the hands of a collective of GED-bearing knuckle-dragging clerks who're all convinced they're smarter than doctors and represent the vanguard of National Security.
Hospitals and medical places frequently get their x-ray equipment checked by trained technicians and even then, things can go wrong. At the airport, the backscatter machines are checked like maybe once a year by NON-medical people. Think about how many passengers go through them every day and how often the machines are used. I hope everyone feels safe and reassured by what I just said. It's just a thought.
The sad thing is, it doesn't matter who is in charge, I think the machines are here to stay. Thank goodness we can still opt-out in North America.