{"id":1031766,"date":"2011-04-10T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/medical-doctors-speak-out-about-why-they-avoid-naked-body-scanners-at-airports\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:10:33","slug":"medical-doctors-speak-out-about-why-they-avoid-naked-body-scanners-at-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/integrative-medicine\/medical-doctors-speak-out-about-why-they-avoid-naked-body-scanners-at-airports.php","title":{"rendered":"Medical doctors speak out about why they avoid naked body scanners at airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those still contemplating whether or not the radiation emitted from  airport naked body scanners is serious enough to avoid, you may be  interested to know that many doctors routinely \"opt out\" and choose the  full-body pat down instead because they recognize the inherent dangers  associated with any level of radiation exposure. A recent CNN piece  explains that for many doctors, avoiding all sources of radiation  whenever possible is just the smart thing to do.<\/p><p>Throughout the  past year, was covered many stories related to the US Transportation  Security Administration's (TSA) controversial naked body scanners, which  are now installed and in use at nearly 80 US airports (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/approach\/tech\/ait\/faqs.shtm\">http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/approach\/tech\/ait\/faqs.shtm<\/a>). Besides representing an unconstitutional invasion of privacy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/approach\/tech\/ait\/faqs.shtm\">http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/approach\/tech\/ait\/faqs.shtm<\/a>), the scanners blast passengers with full-body doses of health-destroying radiation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreddyclinic.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=22309\">http:\/\/www.dreddyclinic.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=2&#038;t=22309<\/a>).<\/p><p>So  what do medical doctors who fly have to say about the machines? Well,  according to CNN's Elizabeth Cohen who recently conducted her own small  investigation, many are concerned about the radiation these scanners  emit. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreddyclinic.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=25069&amp;sid=ba2be6f51534457eac9e7313072c5faa\">Read more...<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.india-herbs.com\/aff\/dreddyclinic\/jointmender\"><span>Joint Mender for Joint Care <\/span><\/a><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2e250_19559880-5531220057148821180?l=integrated-medicine.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those still contemplating whether or not the radiation emitted from airport naked body scanners is serious enough to avoid, you may be interested to know that many doctors routinely \"opt out\" and choose the full-body pat down instead because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/integrative-medicine\/medical-doctors-speak-out-about-why-they-avoid-naked-body-scanners-at-airports.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-integrative-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}