Skin Cancer, Courtesy of the TSA

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ben Johnson

by Ben Johnson

The dangers of the new airport scanners installed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) go beyond the awkward, self-conscious feeling of having a stranger take an X-ray of your nude body. According to a growing number of scientists, the radiation these scanners emit will infect a number of people each year with skin cancer.

The TSA has downplayed all such concerns, insisting the risk of exposure via the backscatter X-ray scanners – which operate through ionizing radiation – is “tinyâ€