As much as we may dislike the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its often over-the-top airport screening procedures, there is no reason to believe that airport body scanners present any sort of risk of harm to TSA workers. If there is a genuine surge in health effects among TSA employees who work near scanners, the surge is likely due to increased diagnosis and reporting of medical conditions as opposed to radiation exposure. There’s just not enough radiation exposure to workers from the scanners. The scanners can be opposed on grounds of intrusiveness and pointlessness but not safety.
Daily Archives: June 28, 2011
EPA regulations — our economy’s golden goose?
Every dollar spent complying with federal regulations returned anywhere from $2.13 to $14.90 during the 2000s, according to a new report from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). EPA rules accounted for approximately 84% of this alleged regulatory largesse. Needless to say, the OMB report is total nonsense. Continue reading
Posted in Costs and benefits
Climatewire: Unfair trade press (Part 2)
So I received the following e-mail from Climatewire deputy editor Lisa Friedman in response to my e-mail to editor John Fialka: Continue reading
Posted in Green jobs
Climatewire: Unfair trade press
Why is perfectly legal funding for a climate skeptic a big trade press story but possibly illegal income paid to a government climate alarmist a non-story? Continue reading
Posted in Green Hypocrisy
