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Backscatter deposits that radiation disproportionately in areas of the body that are prone to cancer - skin, testes, breast tissue, etc. So those areas that ar
by toufka 11y ago
Backscatter deposits that radiation disproportionately in areas of the body that are prone to cancer - skin, testes, breast tissue, etc.
So those areas that are particularly sensitive take a disproportional hit with this technology.
This [1] is a letter from a group of prominent scientists and oncologists at UCSF who wrote a letter to the White House about the uncertainties of the technology when it was used by the TSA at airports.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ucsf-jph-letter.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/os...