Re: Helmet efficacy test

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:17:48 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 3/25/2025 4:19 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:20:38 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

Bicycling has never been a major source of serious traumatic brain
injury (TBI). On a nationwide basis, bicycling's contribution to TBI
counts is low enough to be off most "causes" charts. Bicycling causes
fewer then 1% of U.S. TBI deaths, far fewer than pedestrian travel, and
far fewer on a "per mile" basis. And historic data over the years shows
quite clearly that bicycle helmets are not preventing either fatalities
or concussions.

 
Impossible to document that.

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Hah! Another ignorant statment from Mr. Tricycle Rider!
>

Data on request - but it's been posted or linked countless times.

Nonsense. You can't prove that bicycle helmets are not preventing
either fatalities or concussions.

I suspect that in the USA, the vast majority of bicyclists wear
helmets.

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As usual, you're wrong. But then, you belong to a group that claims that
Trump won the vast majority the popular vote!

With that statement you're claiming that the vast majority of
bicyclists wear don't wear helmets, and as usual, you cannot back up
that claim.

The problem may be ignorance of the definition of "vast." Look it up.
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(I know. You won't trust any definition, because dictionaries may be
published by the evil left wing.)

Vast... very great in size..  Yep I suspect that in the USA, the vast
majority of bicyclists wear helmets.

I don't know why that bothers Krygowski so much. It seems to
me that wearing one does no harm.

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:-)  Says the man who has told us he never wears a helmet! He's so
obsessed with me that he'll even argue against his own position to
dispute me. I think he needs psychological therapy - but he'd be too
afraid to talk to a therapist.

The fact that I never have and never will wear a helmet doesn't mean
that I believe that wearing one does cause anyone harm.  My position
is that I don't care what other adults do regarding bicycle helmets.

I just don't know why it bothers you so much, but I assume it's
because it upsets your fragile self image when people ignore your
advice. I think you need psychological therapy, but you're clearly too
afraid to talk to a therapist.

--
C'est bon
Soloman