Friday, December 31, 2010

Odds of Cancer from TSA Scanners about the Same as Terrorist Blowing up Your Plane

Arizona State University physics professor Peter Rez calculated the amount of radiation exposure a human is likely to receive in one of those newfangled Rapiscan porno-scanners the TSA is so fond of, and determined that exposure to be roughly one-fiftieth to one-hundredth the amount of a standard chest X-ray.

http://boingboing.net/2010/11/19/odds-of-cancer-from.html?x=1