And in those 15 seconds you could have a chance of going blind.

the scanners cant detect liquid bombs. because there is no metal in it and it will look like any other liquid

No thats not true think about the Malaysian air crashes and the german air wings that could not have been prevented with the scanners because those were done by the pilots.

We have posted any thing more than once you are the one posting your opening statement 3 times.

This does not help you at all since you are for the scanners and we are against the scanners. it for us is a good thing that they are being removed.

Instead, TSA officers viewed images of passengers' naked bodies to see if they were carrying weapons.

The TSA will remove all X-ray body scanners from airports, Bloomberg News reports.

The reason: Software couldn't be developed by a congressionally mandated deadline to automatically detect suspicious items on the body.

Even though the radiation doses are likely to be very low, Elsayyad said the doses should still be confirmed using dosimeters.

Body Scanners Do Cause Cancer!!!!!!

Back scatter AIT devices now being deployed produce ionizing radiation, which could be harmful to your health.

It means that far fewer passengers will be exposed to radiation, because the X-ray scanners are being moved to smaller airports.

The TSA has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.

The scanners radiation just penetrates below skin level, it could imperil the lens of the eye.