Scientists on the Bogus Tests "Proving" Airport Scanners Safe [View All]

[JohnyCanuck]

In a letter sent to White House, a group of scientists are questioning tests that the TSA is using to claim that full body scanners used at airports are safe. The letter was a response to a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services regarding a letter sent last year by the scientists

The five scientists who signed the letter question why the TSA won't make the scanners available for independent testing by outside scientists.

The professors, from the University of California, San Francisco, and one at Arizona State University, point out several flaws in the tests.

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The Johns Hopkins researchers' names have been kept secret, and the report on the tests is so "heavily redacted" that "there is no way to repeat any of these measurements," the scientists wrote.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/scientists-on-bogus-tests-proving.html