Hazards of New Airport Scanners

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The new millimeter wave scanners intended for airport security may very well be hazardous to one's health. A paper fielded earlier this year illustrates how these terahertz waves may locally disrupt the bonds in DNA .

Technology Review Article
Paper in ARXIV

They also cause embarrassment and additional screening for transgendered passengers.

One hazard is that they will let terrorists through because they can't go through the body of a person. People can hide stuff in themselves. Drug smugglers have been doing that for years. I would have skipped this technology and went straight to full cavity searches, painful but effective and they would catch drug smugglers too.

I hate this stupid airport scanner stuff. All it will do is violate privacy...
The reason xray scanners don't catch everything is because we're imperfect animals! If one is searching for something that's hard to spot and rarely there (ie: xray-ed baggage, mammogram scans, etc) the brain will cease to see it. If one doesn't find something the majority of the time, our brains will just assume it's not there and not see it when it is there. Being "extra careful" doesn't help either.
Say 1 in every 3000 people bring a gun on a plane. That's a small percentage, and scanners won't catch it because of the above reason. If we're scanning people's bodies instead, and the number is still 1/3000, the same problem will happen. The only thing they're going to see is lots of dicks

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