Scientific American: Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports
Nov 16, 2011, 7:40 pm
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Scientific American: Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports
Here's a very useful link:
This article is extremely useful because of the reputation of the magazine it is published in.
I will be loudly referring to it the next time I'm in a security line. There are many ways to cite it when interacting with other passengers and uniformed TSA employees.... for example:
To other passengers: "Those lines leads to the cancer machines, which I read about in Scientific American magazine. Those machines are actually banned in Europe, so I avoid them by taking this line, which leads to the magnetic detector.
To TSOs: "No offense intended, but when it comes to science, I chose to believe Scientific American magazine more than an airport security screener!"
^ Scientific American magazine!
This article is extremely useful because of the reputation of the magazine it is published in.
I will be loudly referring to it the next time I'm in a security line. There are many ways to cite it when interacting with other passengers and uniformed TSA employees.... for example:
To other passengers: "Those lines leads to the cancer machines, which I read about in Scientific American magazine. Those machines are actually banned in Europe, so I avoid them by taking this line, which leads to the magnetic detector.
To TSOs: "No offense intended, but when it comes to science, I chose to believe Scientific American magazine more than an airport security screener!"
^ Scientific American magazine!
Nov 16, 2011, 7:51 pm
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What do you mean? The average TSO supposedly has two weeks of extremely intense training. I'm sure that includes a few minutes on radiology and physiology, which easily qualifies them as much as those people with their fancy degrees. In fact, I fully trust everything a government employee tells me, because if history has taught us anything it is that government employees always tell us the truth and look out for our best interests above all else.
Nov 17, 2011, 7:49 am
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And in LiveScience:
http://www.livescience.com/17066-eur...-concerns.html
"In the next three years, the TSA plans to install an X-ray or millimeter-wave scanner at nearly every airport security checkpoint in the country."
http://www.livescience.com/17066-eur...-concerns.html
"In the next three years, the TSA plans to install an X-ray or millimeter-wave scanner at nearly every airport security checkpoint in the country."
Nov 17, 2011, 1:54 pm
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Nov 17, 2011, 6:18 pm
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The UK is in the EU and the regulation banning BKSX and mandating opt-out for MMW has direct effect in all EU countries. The UK does not, however, use the euro currency, which is used by around half of the EU countries and an assortment of non-EU countries, and is not signed up to the "Schengen agreement", which is a common passport/visa agreement between several EU and a couple of non-EU countries.
Nov 20, 2011, 12:04 am
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Really? Where did you find out for which the those date is that? When EU will bans the bodyscanners all EU/U.K airports? When they will sign it into new EU laws? This should be prohibited all bodyscanners and that's won't be necessary go into the scanners.
Nov 20, 2011, 2:07 am
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Check out this thread; I'm on a mobile so reposting everything would be awkward.
Dec 2, 2011, 6:25 am
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Sign the petition to stop the use if X-Ray body scanners