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Thanksgiving Travel: Are Airport Security Scanners Really Bad for Your Health? (Rocky Flats Gear Hopes You Think So)


For the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend, Colorado-based company Rocky Flats Gear has introduced a new travel accessory: Radiation-shielding undergarments. Their bras and briefs “can protect tissues from a broadband of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation generated by imaging equipment and natural sources,” according to their website, which also states that the company’s goal is to protect the traveling public from radiation generated by security and medical imaging equipment. They offer a wide variety of styles for men, women, and children, but their site provides very little evidence that the leaf-shaped shields that are adhered to cotton underwear could really protect us.

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Thanksgiving Travel: Are Airport Security Scanners Really Bad for Your Health? (Rocky Flats Gear Hopes You Think So)