Originally Posted by
HSLD
...Even more alarming is that because the radiation energy is the same for all adults, children or infants, the relative absorbed dose is twice as high for small children and infants because they have a smaller body mass (both total and tissue specific) to distribute the dose. Alarmingly, the radiation dose to an infant's testes and skeleton is 60-fold higher than the absorbed dose to an adult brain!
Obviously, this study is flawed...They are assuming that an infant's testes are smaller than the average adult brain. Have the researchers ever been to an actual airport?
