"less radiation than flying" isn't really true, from what I've read
Where, exactly, have you read this? Because radiation doses from flying are *enormous* and the specified doses from this stuff are *miniscule*. Like at least three orders of magnitude down. Now, I freely admit that the maintained-and-designed-by-idiots bit is worrisome but if anybody is honestly saying that the doses for backscatter machines operating as designed are even remotely comparable to doses from flying, I want to know about it.
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Where, exactly, have you read this? Because radiation doses from flying are *enormous* and the specified doses from this stuff are *miniscule*. Like at least three orders of magnitude down. Now, I freely admit that the maintained-and-designed-by-idiots bit is worrisome but if anybody is honestly saying that the doses for backscatter machines operating as designed are even remotely comparable to doses from flying, I want to know about it.