As Grand Rapids' Ford Airport gets its new backscatter body scanners this week, I learned that the low penetration, privacy and dose claims for these scanners have been challenged by Leon Kaufman as recently as February:
A very few dozen of zealots and madmen have led the economically and militarily most powerful nation the world has known to ... , with the use of x-ray backscatter machines, begin a great public health experiment. ... For a typical body thickness, half of the energy leaves the body on the side opposite the beam’s entrance point. ... Under “features” in the Rapiscan brochure are listed archive, save, and print. The AS&E Bodysearch permits hard-copy printing and storage of images for “file reference.”
If they are wrong about penetration and privacy, can they be wrong about dose?
And isn't it enough that we've been lied to about penetration and privacy?
