My name is Andrew Schmidt
High-res
I’m not looking forward to flying any time soon, and find these statistics unsettling if they’re accurate.
…How dangerous are these scanners really?
Well, nobody really knows. The FDA says they’re safe, but they also say FourLoko is illegal so I don’t trust them.
Peter Rez, a Physics Professor at Arizona State University at Tempe concludes that per screening, there’s a 1:30,000,000 chance of developing fatal cancer from a single screening. So if we conclude that the average citizen takes 2 flights a year for a period of 30 years, there’s a 60:30,000,00 - or 1:500,000 chance of developing fatal cancer from airport screening with backscatter X-Ray.
Statistically over 600 Americans will die of cancer from Backscatter X-Ray Airport Screening over the next 30 years.
Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that there was a 1:25,000,000 chance of dying aboard an Airliner in a terrorist attack during the decade of the 2000’s. Lets assume, for a moment, that these statistics hold true for the next 30 years. Over those same 30 years one’s chance of dying in a terrorist attack aboard an airliner are 3:25,000,000 - or 1:8,333,333.
So that’s 1:500,000 for Backscatter X-Ray, 1:8,333,333 for Terrorism.
Over 16 Times More Likely That You’ll Die from the Screening than the Terrorism.
