New evidence emerges about safety of TSA scanners

  There have been numerous reports that the backscatter scanners the TSA uses are not safe. Now new evidence has emerged about their safety, as numerous TSA agents who stand near the scanners have developed cancer, strokes and heart attacks.
  The government claims there is no problem with the scanners but will not allow independent testing of the machines.
  It might be noted again that President Bush's first TSA director, Michael Cherthoff, was an investor in the company that developed the scanners. It might also be noted that he continues to profit from their use across the country.
  Infowars (admittedly a paranoid site) has links and a video report, seen here:

  From an earlier report:

For Rez, the real danger occurs if the machine stops in the middle of a scan, allowing the beam to focus on a tiny area for several seconds. Given that the backscatter works with a wheel rotating at a high speed, and that the agency plans to use the scanners continuously 365 days a year, mechanical failures are likely, he said.

   There's more here and here

Eh,  a scientist is raising something really awful about the scanners at the airport, those machines that will be proliferating all across the country in numerous airports. There's concern about the efficacy of the scanners, including 

• who will check their accuracy?  

• How will we know if they're malfunctioning? 

• What happens if they fail and no one knows it? 

• How will this radiation affect children? 

• What is some folks are susceptible to cancer genetically? How will these machines react to those people?

  Popular Mechanics doubt anyone will even be caught by the scanners anyway. 
  The alternative to the scanner is, of course, a body cavity search, including sexual organs. Read more here and here.
  That link is about the invasion of personal privacy and body cavity searches, which are expanding to include other forms of transportation.