Originally Posted by Dan The Man

That same argument could be made with the word pillow or cheese or pretty much any object in place of helmet. If you knew your head was about to hit the pavement and you had the option to tape a 1 kilo brick of mozzarella to your head, wouldn't you do it? Or would you say, "studies haven't shown conclusively any benefit to cheese, I'll just hit it with my bare head and take my chances".

I know I would choose cheese. But this is getting off topic so I won't follow that line of logic too far. We already know that helmets will work, so there is no point in strapping cheese to our heads.