Unless you need to be touched, choose the scanner.
"Most people are unaware about the fact that there is significant radiation exposure associated with air travel because they are well above the Earth's atmosphere," said Robert J. Barish, a radiological and health physicist in New York City. "You'd get as much radiation in a whole-body scanner as you'd get in two minutes at 30,000 feet."Of course, if you'd never wear a bathing suit in public, you may have concerns not related to the health impact of being scanned. But then you'd probably be Amish, so that would be moot.
The steady erosion of any privacy at all - and what if anything to do about it - is another question altogether.
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"Most people are unaware about the fact that there is significant radiation exposure associated with air travel because they are well above the Earth's atmosphere,"
What horseshit. Anyone who knows anything about atmospheric aerodynamics knows that a jetliner CANNOT OPERATE ABOVE THE ATMOSPHERE. This is another fine example of blither from the left from someone that knows nothing about what they speak of.
Probably an incomplete quote from the reporter. Probably the original quote was "... well above most of the Earth's atmosphere...", and the reporter didn't get it all written into her notebook.
By the way, we know your politics, but we have no idea whatsoever of Robert Barish's politics.
Typically, instead of a factual refutation of the point that matters to this discussion, you nitpick something that's obviously shorthand and resort to ad hominem. My rejoinder in kind would be to call you ... - o.k., I'll self-censor here on Thanksgiving Day.
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