Originally Posted by
AllieKat
That's a bizarre statement to make. Send me any solid, peer-reviewed research you can find. Seriously, anything. Even one paper.
Honestly this goes far beyond anything I wanted from the thread (thanks to those who helped answer my question) - I already stated I don't want my daughter in any imaging machines - that is the only position I can approach this from. If CDG doesn't have imaging machines, then my problem is solved (does RUN, for that matter?).
Furthermore, in general with devices like this, the burden is on the device proponents to present long-term exposure studies, etc., to support safety of the device. As you are no doubt aware, no such studies were done and to my knowledge aren't being done, nor were they for the backscatters (which many of the same agencies using MMW swore up and down were safe). If this device were being used 1% as much in a hospital setting, of course, such data would have been required of the manufacturers by both the FDA and the EU counterpart entity).
Originally Posted by
Himeno
They used to say fluoroscopes were "incredibly safe" as well.
Don't claim something is "safe" when it has never been allowed to be properly tested.
This is essentially where I am coming from, in terms of acting in the interest of the safety of my family and myself. I am more concerned about the backscatter example rather than fluoroscopes, however, though both are appropriate.