500grains
03-12-11, 23:50
Another big ooops.
When the government says "X is safe", you can be nearly certain that it is not.
The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm
TSA claims this is simply because TSA employees can't do math well enough to accurately report the radiation emitted.
And this is supposed to give us confidence that the machines are safe???
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/500grains/TSA_Janet_Napolitano_Scan-1.jpg
When the government says "X is safe", you can be nearly certain that it is not.
The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm
TSA claims this is simply because TSA employees can't do math well enough to accurately report the radiation emitted.
And this is supposed to give us confidence that the machines are safe???
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/500grains/TSA_Janet_Napolitano_Scan-1.jpg