Comments on: X-Ray scanners at airports – More big brother and a cancer risk too

By: Ty Bollinger

Ty Bollinger — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:50:04 +0000

My bad. The radiation being used in these “full-body-porno” scanners is terahertz radiation and not typical ionizing radiation.

But a study conducted by Boian Alexandrov (and colleagues) at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico indicated that terahertz radiation has the potential to literally rip apart or unzip double-stranded DNA. This, in turn, creates bubbles that could interfere with critical processes (like DNA replication and gene expression).

I don’t really don’t mind being exposed nude for the TSA-Pervs, but having my DNA unraveled…that’s another issue altogether!!

By: Ty Bollinger

Ty Bollinger — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:36:08 +0000

I agree. At best, this is intrusive and unethical, and at worst, illegal. Isn’t it illegal to expose people to radiation without medical justification? How is the government allowed to x-ray us “willy-nilly” at the airports? Have they considered the deleterious effects on women in their first trimester of pregnancy, when DNA damage (caused by radiation) is most likely to result in genetic abnormalities?

Dr. John W. Gofman, an authority on the health effects of ionizing radiation, estimates that 75% of breast cancer could be prevented by avoiding or minimizing exposure to the ionizing radiation. His exhaustive research led him to conclude that there is NO SAFE DOSE-LEVEL of ionizing radiation, since it is equivalent to dropping “grenades and small bombs” on human cells.

These full-body x-ray machines should be banned. Radiation damages the DNA in your cells and much more. It accumulates in the body during one’s lifetime and when it reaches a certain level, cancer is nearly certain. No matter what anyone tells you and no matter how they try to “down-play” the danger, just know that there is NO SAFE DOSE of radiation.

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