The Alex Jones Show: Airport Full Body Scanners Coming To Austin, Tx!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoloQz6UII&feature=player_embedded

Posted by Gordon on January 4, 2010 at 10:00pm

TheAlexJonesChannel
January 04, 2010

Alex starts off the show with some bad news coming to his town, but that won't get Alex down in the dumps.
stay tuned as Alex will talk more about the full body scanners coming to his town in the days ahead.
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Are Airport Full Body Scanners A Health Menace?

Naked Capitalism
January 4, 2010

Dear readers, the headline may seem alarmist, so lets work though the claims and counter claims:
Health issue or no, I find these ever escalating encroachments on my person to be unwarranted

Full body scanning involves radiation. The medical profession has been pretty remiss about pointing out the dangers of radiation, even though radiation can cause cancer. Thats probably because a quite a few diagnostic tests involve the use of radiation, and they are too often cavalier about it (has any doctor about to give you an X-ray bothered asking how many youve had over your lifetime?) Yes, weve had some exceptions, like doctors arguing against the recent fad of annual full body CT scans because the dose is equal to that of several years of background radiation, but that posture is comparatively rare (one of my pet beefs has long been the until recent recommendation to get annual mammograms starting at age 40. Mammograms are a terrible test, with a high level of false positives and false negatives; a manual exam by an experienced practitioner has a much higher success rate of catching the fast-growing, dangerous cancers, but doesnt fit the modern idea of what a test should look like. Oh, and all those radiologists have an installed base of equipment they need to pay off. Think that might have an effect on their view of the situation?)

The writing here (from NoWorldSystem) is sensationalistic. While it does cite medical experts, but does not provide data about the doses involved:
Full story here.
http://www.infowars.com/are-airport-f...