Travel by air is aggravation. The outcry about the new backscatter X-rays that produce full nude images of us and dose us with radiation are again in the news.
Wired Magazine just ran an article about the error in measuring the radiation dosage from these machines. Pilots and Flight Attendants can congratulate their union for successfully exempting them from these machines on the basis of occupational safety. We frequent flyers have no such voice, save our congressmen. TSA has always been up front with their response- Tough Shit Asshole- its their name.
If any private concern had under reported a public radiation emission by a factor of 10, there would be hearings in congress. The fact that there is a $90 Million contract for these machines, and the buying agency is essentially an unsupervised bureaucracy makes all the difference.
I am anxious to learn how the radiation from say, 20 trips through these machines compares to the radiation around Fukushima?
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