Airport Body Scanners Could Give You Cancer!
WARNING - Daily Fail link. The comments are, as to be expected, priceless.
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King Ralph is drunk, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 20:47,
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Foot x-ray machines for kids
At least that's what one commentator says we had in shoe shops four decades ago (to use their phrase). Now that does sound fun.
Ignoring the woo-ism and just to take the pure security angle though, all the while the commercial imperative has somehow bent the rules so that you can buy flammables in duty free to take on a plane with you it all does seem a bit cursory. It's what I think is otherwise known as panopticism...comfort or fear in the thought of being permanently watched and monitored (see CCTV for further reference).
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How to be a journalist....
1. See new thing.
2. Ring up expert and ask if new thing could be dangerous.
3. Listen to expert talk for 5 minutes about facts and things.
4. Say "So it COULD be dangerous?"
5. Hear expert say "It most likely won't be dangerous."
6. Say "Ah, but it COULD be dangerous!"
7. Hear expert say "There's always a tiny chance that that could be the case, but there's no evidence that...."
8. Hang up phone, write story saying "NEW THING COULD BE DANGEROUS!"
9. Profit!
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 21:13,
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That's one way of doing it. It's unethical.
A good reporter won't do that. Or at least, won't stay at a paper that demands such shit.
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Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 2:19,
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If he mail is to be believed
Everything either causes cancer or cures it.
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and often both.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:21,
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Indeed
it's been indexed :)
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Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 0:24,
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well the good news is
most daily mail readers seem to have vowed to not leave their country
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