Originally Posted by
closetbiker
After looking back, you're right. Tony gives a free pass to an insult because it wasn't directed at him, but takes exception to another that wasn't directed at him either
Thank you. I can understand why Tony is irritated, but I think his claim of innocence is misplaced or mistaken.
Tony is completely correct that there is no slam-dunk data to suggest that helmets actually cause injuries, there are merely some suggestive results which lean that way.
The only thing that's clear is that there is:
1. No correlation between high levels of helmet wearing and low levels of serious head injury
2. A correlation between high levels of helmet wearing and low numbers of cyclists.
3. No acceptable reason to tell anyone else to put on or take off a helmet
Anyone claiming to be "pro-choice" vis-a-vis helmets will surely welcome and support the repeal of existing helmet laws as an unwarranted intrusion on the same rights which they exercize when they decide to wear a helmet.