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To be fair, they are designed to work with all kinds of species, and samples and things. You don't want it to delete someone's liver just because they haven't been on a starship before, or the new plant sample taken from a new planet.
Humans are full of necessary bacteria, and deleting all of that would be quite bad for you. But at the same time, them being in some place they're not supposed to be is also going to cause problems.
What's more surprising is that they don't employ the sterilisation/quarantine fields that the older model transporters used to have, where they'd wall off the transport pad, blast them, and then open it up. That doesn't seem unreasonable to apply to a shuttle before landing.
Sure... but the meme is about Ransom, who I assume has used a transporter once or twice before.