{"id":7224,"date":"2011-11-16T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2011-11-16T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:28:13","slug":"x-ray-scanners-used-by-tsa-banned-in-europe-over-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=7224","title":{"rendered":"X-ray scanners used by TSA banned in Europe over health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Security Theatre<\/a> has lost its porno channel in Europe, but the ones operated by TSA agents in U.S. airports are still showing.<\/p>\n

The European Union announced this week that the X-ray scanners the TSA loves so much are being banned<\/a> because of safety concerns. There are two types of advanced scanners being used in U.S. airports — X-ray machines and millimeter-wave scanners. Only the X-ray machines are considered a health risk. About half of the advanced scanners in use in the United States are the X-ray type.<\/p>\n

The TSA claims that in almost two years of use, all of the advanced scanners — of both types combined — have detected “more than 300 dangerous or illegal items.” Of course, if those 300 items were actually dangerous things — as opposed to a a water bottle that was too big or something nutty such as that — they’d tell us what the “dangerous” items are.<\/p>\n

Scientific estimates of cancers caused by the X-ray scanners each year range from about six to about 100. Given the fact that Security Theatre is mostly just to make the public feel safe — instead of providing actual safety — it’s time to shut Security Theatre down<\/a>. But once bureaucrats are committed to a program, they don’t generally back down. Don’t expect the TSA to suddenly start caring about cancer or cost effectiveness. Expect the bureaucrats and politicians in charge to stick to their guns — or, rather, scanners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Security Theatre has lost its porno channel in Europe, but the ones operated by TSA agents in U.S. airports are still showing. The European Union announced this week that the X-ray scanners the TSA loves so much are being banned because of safety concerns. There are two types of advanced scanners being used in U.S. Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-1Sw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7232,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}