by Bill Fisher
Over the weekend the Los Angeles Times featured a story with this headline [1]: “TSA scanners pose negligible risk to passengers, new test shows.”
Aside from the propaganda aspects of the headline, consistent with other TSA “good news [2],” the story and its underpinnings are fundamentall flawed, as has been reported here [3] and elsewhere in the media.
Links:
[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-test-tsa-scanners-20120608,0,487590.story
[2] http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/good-catch-explosives-discovered-in.html
[3] http://tsanewsblog.com/3499/news/lousy-reporting-by-la-times-on-scanners/
[4] http://tsanewsblog.com/3515/news/tsa-and-scientific-method-sworn-enemies/
[5] http://warisacrime.org/taxonomy/term/121