lanierb wrote:
Let me also address the bigger issue: no one is saying that helmets do absolutely nothing. They help a bit in some circumstances. It turns out that those circumstances are so rare that you can't find anything if you do a high quality study.
I don't believe that's a fair characterization of the literature.
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Here's a related question: should people wear helmets in cars?That's just sophistry. Made irrelevant by seatbelts and airbags, which serve the same purpose (mitigating the transfer of energy from a collision from being absorbed by the skull), but are more convenient due to the obvious advantage cars have in terms of having the space for gear. But effectively impossible on bikes (though I believe some company has experimented with bike helmet airbags.)
So I'll flip that back around at you: should seatbelts and airbags be legally mandated in cars? Even for just a slow trip to the neighborhood store?