awmperry

Just spotted this on Yahoo. An excellent example of sensationalist (not to mention bad) journalism, and an even better example of humans behaving like sheep... particularly stupid sheep.

http://dir.yahoo.com/thespark/5546/

( Read more, with commentary... )

All right, I'll cut to my own contribution to the debate; note the elegant spelling and actual sentence structure.

Oh, for heaven's sake... THE MACHINE DOES NOT SHOW YOU NAKED.

It shows things like metal, polymers and so one on your body. It won't show your bones, it won't show your private parts, it won't result in security staff charging admission to their private peep show, because THEY WON'T HAVE ONE.

The only valid concern is the radiation; not being a radiologist, I'll leave that judgement to people with the competence to judge.

Once again, then, to see if this'll finally sink in: the scanner WILL NOT show you naked. It won't give rise to X-ray porn. It will show your belt buckle, your guns, your exothermic waistcoat, but not your dangly bits.

OK? Granted, the original article was inflammatory, inaccurate and badly misleading, but that's no reason for otherwise rational people to abandon all reason.

awmperry

It is, of course, entirely possible that I may have overstated "otherwise rational" a bit....