In these days there are articles and comments on the likely installation body scanner at airports as a method of control. I note with great surprise that almost no one seems concerned about the effects of radiation on health. It tells of attack on the dignity and, although it may be considered this argument, I think the most important in a civilization in which the body is no longer taboo. Instead, I think at least AMAZING anyone wonder why we have to endure what is possibly a physical attack on our integrity. It is said that X-rays used are weak and "bounce" in the skin. "We are confident they will have no influence on our already quite unexpectedly battered bodies chemistry in society? There is something very important called "precautionary principle" and is included in the Treaty of Mastrich: the burden of proving the safety of a new product or procedure for a party who intends to introduce. How many times have recognized, decades after their intensive use, a substance (think for example of DDT) was extremely toxic and needed to ban it?
Is not it possible to think of ways to preserve the safety of flights without increasing the risks to our health? How do you start such an "experiment" on our health but say nothing about it? "Is clearly not one of those cases where the cure is worse than the disease?
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