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How harmful is this to our bodies?
by miguelmota 7y ago
How harmful is this to our bodies?
- shams93 7y agoYeah I wonder if this raises the risk for cancer it can't be good for you.
- djsumdog 7y agoThe scanners in airports are currently millimeter wave machines. They're fucking useless with insanely high false positive rates, but they don't appear to have any health risks (unlike the backscatter x-ray machines from a decade ago, which I'm sure would be facing cancer lawsuits today if they were still in use).
- mehrdadn 7y agoI was under the impression backscatter x-ray was safe (as in this is what every source I've seen says). Any evidence to the contrary?
- richardhod 7y agothey were not safe, and they were only approved because the research that said they were safe was done by the manufacturers themselves. They were taken away once academics and other experts showed that the risks were way too high using them
- mehrdadn 7y agoLink?
- icelancer 7y agoThe person is probably extrapolating from the UCSF study that was done (and debunked thoroughly by various governmental and non-governmental organizations). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray#Health_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray#Health_effec... Ironically enough, millimeter wave scanning is less well-understood than backscatter x-ray!
- sbov 7y agoBecause companies don't have to prove something is safe, you have to prove something unsafe. Reminds me of the BPA free garbage. Many of the replacements are/were worse than BPA. But no one seemed to care.
- djsumdog 7y agoThe complaint about BPA was that it's an estrogen mimic (parts of the human body can react to it as if it were estrogen). If you eat a lot (a whole lot) of soy products, soy can do the same. BPA has mostly been replaced with BPS ... which is also an estrogen mimic.