Can I carry-on lab equipments on plane?

[tooki]

I don’t think we should be avoiding traveling with 100% legitimate, legal-for-air-travel items just to appease ignorant screeners. If anything we should do it more, to desensitize them to these items.

It’s not as though we have to “assume” anything: they have lists of prohibited and permitted items.

[David Hess]

I don’t think we should be avoiding traveling with 100% legitimate, legal-for-air-travel items just to appease ignorant screeners. If anything we should do it more, to desensitize them to these items.

I do not either, but the screeners have authority without responsibility so have no reason not to be ignorant or malicious.

It’s not as though we have to “assume” anything: they have lists of prohibited and permitted items.

The lists are more of a suggestion than a rule.  There is no recourse if they ignore the lists.

[rsjsouza]

I don’t think we should be avoiding traveling with 100% legitimate, legal-for-air-travel items just to appease ignorant screeners. If anything we should do it more, to desensitize them to these items.

I do not either, but the screeners have authority without responsibility so have no reason not to be ignorant or malicious.

And that is why I keep seeing more and more the current thesis of abolishing the TSA in the US - twenty years of corruption, incompetence and money spent with more gaps than a sieve.

https://reason.com/2021/11/19/tsa-20th-birthday-abolish-airport-security-terror/
https://youtu.be/G8kMnS8GEhg

[SilverSolder]

I don’t think we should be avoiding traveling with 100% legitimate, legal-for-air-travel items just to appease ignorant screeners.   [...]

I agree with that, but it also makes sense to take real world biases and misunderstandings into account...   you will be happier that way!