How much harm do the scanners do to TSA employees who are around it for hours each day? If it's shown to severely affect them, or if they can be 'scared' into believing it does, it might solve this problem once and for all.
The union asked TSA to provide workers with dosimeters, but the request was never fulfilled.
For those of you who don't know, Boston Logan is like ground zero for the xray backscatter machines. The TSA there is a well oiled machine, busy irradiating a very high percentage of airport travelers. It's one of the few airports where I routinely have to request a pat down since they rarely have that one line that is only being sent through a metal detector. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire Boston population starts to glow in a couple of years from all of the radiation being dished out at this airport.
You wont get rid of the xray scanners even if all employees have dosimeters and understand the dangers. You just increase their salaries through hazard pay.
What blows my mind is that the masses care more about cellphone electric fields more than DNA mutating rays. I blame popular brainwashing news stations like fox, msnbc, CNN. Etc.
We need to make it in the best interest of news agencies to drum up and manufacture some panic about this.
