Originally Posted by
Caradoc
Even if the FDA's projected "one in four hundred million people will get cancer as a result of the body scanners" number is true and not higher, that means you're still "substantially" more likely to get cancer from a TSA scanner than be affected in any way by an actual terrorist event.
Actually, you are way off. About 2,000 people died in the September 11 attacks, out of a US population of 300 million. Even if you assume that that was the only terrorist attack of the century, the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are far higher than 1 in 400 million.