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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These people from some outfit called the CDC seem to think helmets are pretty important.

"An average of 247 traumatic brain injury deaths and 140,000 head injuries among children and adolescents younger than 20 years were related to bicycle crashes each year in the United States. As many as 184 deaths and 116,000 head injuries might have been prevented annually if these riders had worn helmets. An additional 19,000 mouth and chin injuries were treated each year."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8909479/[/quote]

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Definitely important, but — as someone who rides a bike regularly, and always with a helmet, and also requires that my kids wear helmets — I was a little disappointed to see that a full 25 percent of brain injury deaths and 17 percent of head injuries that happened would NOT have been prevented by helmets. Don't know if that's because those people were already wearing helmets or because the accidents were so bad that a helmet didn't help, but still.[/quote]

Not really understanding why people are so eager to gainsay something that reduces head injuries by 83 percent. [/quote]

I'm not eager to gainsay it, I'm alarmed by the figures, which I hadn't seen before. I had assumed they reduced injuries and deaths by more than that.[/quote]
If you don’t think the data demonstrating the efficacy of helmets is strong enough, you should see the r-squared for drug trials.

Adopting the same language and posture as anti-vaxers is a strong indicator that you are an extremist. [/quote]

I wear a helmet every time I ride. I just thought they protected me more than that study is indicating. I also take every recommended vaccine, for what it’s worth. I honestly had never seen any statistics about how effective helmets are or aren’t, I simply wear one because it seems like a good idea. [/quote]

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