Originally Posted by
chephy
What's amazing is that this kind of bull$hit is spouted by people who're supposed to know something about brain injuries, like doctors. Any honest person with an IQ of over 70 would have to admit that he or she has NO clue what kind of injuries would have resulted from just seeing a smashed up helmet. There simply isn't sufficient information. Those brain surgeons are not as smart as the sayings would have us believe.
Given a pretty obvious look at where the helmet took the force, and where that would have been on your head, then running the numbers of how much pressure it takes to crack a skull, and then how likely bruising and inflammation on the brain would be, I'd say you could make a pretty good assertion to the resulting injury and severity of said injury. What specifically are you not sure on? Impact on helmet would be skull without helmet. Said impact on skull would result in some effect on skull, and encased brain, no? Perhaps I'm not clear on basic physics?
Joe