I just gotta know what you think!

I was flipping through the June edition of edition of Redbook Magazine and came across this gem:

Article about X-ray scanners in Redbook Magazine June, 2012.

Apologies about the distorted photo - it's from my camera phone. Basically, the article says that the new airport scanners (the scanners that require you to stand with raised arms) have recently been banned in Europe because of health concerns. Reportedly, the amounts of radiation emitted have been measured at 45 times higher than the TSA claims.

I'll be honest...I've never been a fan of these. When they showed up in the Memphis airport last year, I actively dodged them... when the husband went through one in the Pensacola airport a couple of months ago, it detected a Kleenex in his pants pocket...which is more than enough to make me think, "Hmmmmm!"

It doesn't take that much more time to get the pat down (because so few people actually request it)...and I just try to pretend that I'm getting a free mini-massage. :)

So - what do you think? Do the new scanners emit less radiation than the radiation emitted from a cell phone (as the TSA claims)? Are they scary enough to make you a "pat down" girl? Or is all this concern much ado about nothing?

Tell me, tell me. :)