Parker, Miss USA 1994, KTLA Reporter
Lu Parker of KTLA, who dates the mayor of Los Angeles, and is supposed to be a reporter, claimed on Monday night that the TSA full-body X-ray back-scatter machines emitted the same radiation as a cell phone conversation. Apparently nobody at the entire station knows the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. And why should she? She’s pretty. Pretty dumb. That’s unless she was deliberately trying to mislead the public.
Or does she believe that cell phones give off X-rays? I assume she’s never taken physics preferring her graduate degree in make-up-ology. Listen to the clip below. Shilling for the TSA and the body scanners, for sure. A disservice to the viewing public for sure and more deliberate misinformation.
Hey Parker — and the rest of the crew at KTLA (PDF) — read this report and then tell us how it’s the same as a cell phone call..
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JCD, I’m not defending her. I could care less about her and broadcast news in general. They are all fools pumping out FUD. I’m just stating that she may not technically be wrong. The passenger wasn’t flying from LAX as you are suggesting where they use X-Ray BS. He was flying from SAN which uses both mm Wave and X-Ray depending on the terminal. And before you say I don’t know what I’m talking about, my degrees are in the electrical engineering field and I’ve done decades related of work since then. I’m not some uninitiated hoi polloi making some claim about the dangers of different types of radiation. Simply a critical reader who is pointing out in the short clip you posted probably lacks some context and she didn’t say anything that was damningly inaccurate depending on Tyner’s specific circumstances.
John, good for you to get a license.
I got mine in 1978, when I did 13WPM code at the US Customs House on Battery Street to get it.
Now an Extra, and heavy into building QRP transceivers.
Slightly prepared for the end of cell phone towers.
And tell Adam nobody talks like that. He sounds stupid.
I am a DOD Civ and frequently travel in and out of San Diego on orders. I always travel with sensitive information (computer and paperwork) which I am obligated to maintain custody at all times. I have a security clearance and a need to know. The TSA dipshit has neither. I’m wondering what they will think when I tell them I’m not authorized to step into the nudiscan or the grope-zone without custody of my belongings?
Being a tv news photographer in San Francisco, (32 years), and sometimes working with LA reporters, I can assure you that LA has the most vapid, gorgeous, stupid women reporters in the world. San Francisco, in contrast, has, at times, the ugliest newscast teams on the planet.
Neither group knows anything about radiation, I can also assure you.
Anyone know what type of calibration or maintenance is required for the x-ray or whole body microwave machines? The commercial medical machines (X-ray, CATscan, MRI) have a bad habit of killing people (Therac-25). In the radiation health industry, its known as an unnecessary risk.
John,
A way to measure how much radiation you are getting is to wear a dosimeter. Don’t get one of those that you see advertised for $69 that you have to send in to a lab to get the results. Instead, get a SIRAD (self-indicating instant radiation alert dosimeter) which shows the results immediately.
This is the one I have (it was given to me at a meeting I attended in the summer). This has a link to Crowe and Company’s web site, but they don’t offer online ordering so you have to call or email them. It says the cost is $29.95 for a single dosimeter, but at the meeting, Dr. Allen Brodsky, who helped develop it said that in large quantities they sell for $10 each. See his article about it.
I can’t remember the source -maybe it was on the latest No Agenda by Adam- but some TSA turd told one of the sheep in the herd, while standing in front of the Rapiscan machine, that there was no radiation, there are no X-rays.
# 4 John C Dvorak said, “ANYONE with some science or any education whatsoever has got to know the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.”
I’ve got to beg to differ. (Pleeeeease, may I differ?) I’m willing to bet half the people have been sensitized to the word ‘radiation’ as something evil and harmful. Isn’t ionizing something they put in salt?
# 37 KB6GK said, “And tell Adam nobody talks like that. He sounds stupid.”
SOUNDS stupid? He’s an absolute moron. Or is it moran? Seriously, I’m certain his IQ must be in the double digit range. I’ve known 12 year-olds with better mental processes.
Shut your holes people, she’s trying to be like her idols at Fox News. Glen Beck all the way!
@Stan #41,
I like the way you are thinking make sure to keep it in a pocket however, otherwise the TSA people will make you remove it and send it on the conveyer belt…
As someone who has actually worked with T-Waves in my previous R&D life, I can say that they are not without potential issues.
While not ionizing, but they do seem sufficiently energetic to effect powerful resonances in large molecules like DNA. And one can indeed create damage to DNA bonds with T-Waves.
Think of them as penetrate photochemistry players. Not a lot of knowledge out there since our ability to create and sense THz waves is very new.
That’s one fine looking stupid bitch you have there lou
Can any of these machines detect the dreaded tampon bomb?
Please…she dates Villaregosa…she’d let anything in her body!
John,
A way to measure how much radiation you are getting is to wear a dosimeter. Don’t get one of those that you see advertised for $69 that you have to send in to a lab to get the results. Instead, get a SIRAD (self-indicating instant radiation alert dosimeter) which shows the results immediately.
The one I have (it was given to me at a meeting I attended in the summer) can be seen at https://www.rkb.us/contentdetail.cfm?content_id=136364 . This has a link to Crowe and Company’s web site, but they don’t offer online ordering so you have to call or email them. It says the cost is $29.95 for a single dosimeter, but at the meeting, Dr. Allen Brodsky, who helped develop it said that in large quantities they sell for $10 each. See his article about it at http://www.jpands.org/vol15no2/brodsky.pdf .
have you ever seen what the news-anchors see, they’re paid to look pretty and read their lines. I seen many news anchors get screwed over by the people that actually write the stories on the telepromters.
# 50 Stan Slonkosky,
“A way to measure how much radiation you are getting”
In a backscatter scan the VICTIM receives approximately 0.05 μSv (or 0.005 mrems) of radiation. Your dosimeter is not sensitive enough!!
From the link you provided it measures is a Ionizing Radiation Sensor for monitoring high doses (roughly 2-1,000 rads). Also it’s Energy dependency is independent for energy over 30 KeV (X ray). Ionizing radiation has energies above a few electron volts (eV) that is X-rays, above 10 nm.
“Hard” X-rays are from 12 to 120 keV (0.10 to 0.01 nm wavelength) or 3 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3 × 1015 Hz to 3 × 1019 Hz).
Millimeter wave scanner uses sub-millimeter terahertz radiation (or “T-ray”) where THz radiation is 0.1 mm infrared to 1.0 mm microwave.
Science guy is correct.
Dosimeters and most other radiation detectors are very poor at detecting soft x-rays like the soft copper lines or longer.
Completely out of the question for T-waves which require a very sophisticated receiver at present.
One of the most sensitive detectors for cumulative exposure may be DNA, which BTW, is NOT a good thing.
I see that grandpa (Hey, Kids, Get Off My Lawn!) # 54 pedro is back. Good old crotchety, rotchety old minded, ever unintelligibly ticked off, ranting comments making pedro.
The world needs all types and pedro, your my anti-hero.
I thought the Citadel graduated smart people.
First all electrically generated radiation is non-ionizing. The only difference is the frequency. The higher the frequency, the easier it penetrates things. Even steel. I use to work in the industry, and we had thickness gauges that shot a beam of XRays thru steel up to a quarter inch thick. Ionizing radiation only comes from Alpha and Beta particle emitting sources. That are some isotope, naturally occurring or artificially made. Mainly used in special medical scanners (PET) and certain industrial scanners (tin plating).
No way any Airport scanner could be swinging around a lead shielded nuclear particle source, that could cover the entire human body. It’s just not possible to do, for less than millions of dollars per device.
# 58 Glenn,
“First all electrically generated radiation is non-ionizing.”
What planet are you from, planet beavis and butthead?
1.) X-ray tubes create electrically generated radiation which is very-ionizing!!!!
2.) As Einstein showed long ago Ultraviolet radiation is ionizing.
3.) Ultraviolet laser radiation causes electrons to be emitted (ionized) immediately.
4.) All radiation is electromagnetic.
5.) High frequency Short-wavelength electromagnetic Radiation starting at ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays are ionizing
6.) The largest use of ionizing radiation is medical radiography used to make images inside the human body using x-rays. This is the largest artificial source of radiation exposure for humans.