Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers

[yizuman]

It was bound to pop up sooner or later...

"TSA employees at Logan International Airport believe they have identified a cancer cluster in their ranks, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and released by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They have requested dosimetry to counter 'TSA's improperly non-monitored radiation threat.' So far, at least, they have not received it. The documents also reveal a paper from Johns Hopkins that essentially questions whether it is even safe to stand near an operating scanner, let alone inside one. Also, the National Institute of Standards and Technology says that the Dept. of Homeland Security 'mischaracterized' their work by telling USA Today that NIST affirmed the safety of the scanners when in fact NIST does not do product safety testing and never tested a scanner for safety."

Source: Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers - Slashdot

Plenty of links from inside the source for you to read. My guess is that even if "proof" is found, their lawyers will tie it up for many years to come before a anyone actually hears the case.

Then there's lawsuits with settlements and so on.

By the time the machines finally do get removed, there will be already many dead TSA Agents all because the bottom line is more important than the life of a human being.

Yiz

 

[StSapphire]

Heh, this isn't what I thought this was saying at first.

I thought it was saying a TSA person found a cancer cluster in a passenger they were screening with their naked machines, lol.

 

[diehardbiker]

Uncle Should learn what FDR said during his inaugural. Remember what FDR said?

"Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself"

When Uncle Sam is gonna to wake up?