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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:09:37 GMT, (Bill Z.)
wrote in message : He posts a link to Randy's site for "balance" but immediately disparages it. No need - Randy does his own auto-disparaging. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:37:51 -0400, Mitch Haley
wrote: I read in my local paper (The Lansing State Journal) that riding without a helmet makes you 14 times more likely to get killed. Assuming that's true, what does that matter if the odds of being killed are extremely small.? JT |
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"John Forrest Tomlinson" wrote...
Assuming that's true, what does that matter if the odds of being killed are extremely small.? I have a hard time believing you don't wear a helmet, John Forrest. Jim "academically speaking" Flom |
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It seems clear that a) the emergency medical people have gotten
gradually better at their job (probably in large part due to technology), and b) helmets aren't making a significant difference in cyclists' fatalities. If they were, the cyclist plot would drop relative to the ped. plot. This whole helmet discussion reminds of my pesticide chemistry class when my prof. would tell the class "but the LD50 is ... blah, blah, blah.", but never took into account that while maybe it takes a lot of whatever chemical to kill you, no one really knows how much it takes to cause cancer, nerve damage, brain damage, loss of eyesight, etc.... The same thing holds true for this discussion. You're looking at FATALITIES. What about the accidents where a helmet prevented brain injury? It's not something that can be answered or tested easily.... And I'll wear mine thank you, I've hit enough low hanging tree branches while MTB riding to know they help. |
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Tim McNamara writes:
(Bill Z.) writes: You should note Krygowski's tactics. Yours are exactly the same tactics. Hmmm. Liar. -- My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB |
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" writes:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:09:37 GMT, (Bill Z.) wrote in message : He posts a link to Randy's site for "balance" but immediately disparages it. No need - Randy does his own auto-disparaging. Randy is no more biased than Avery (who did the one Frank liked.) But note the assymetrical treatment in Frank's post. Bill -- My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB |
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Are you saying you received minor brain injuries riding your MTB w/o a
helmet on? If not, how do you know helmets help prevent that? JT It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that cracked plastic and dented styrofoam is better than cracked skin and a dented skull. |
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