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Old 08-13-14, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Mvcrash
Junk link. It quotes the discredited "85% study" paid for by helmet makers as it sole source of evidence - this study was officially "shamed" in the last couple when the US government removed it from policy considerations because it was completely worthless. (Bizarrely, the authors looked at two groups of children, one cycling with helmets in parks and the other without on inner city roads, found a difference in minor head injuries, and deduced the 85% figure from this...)

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former."
― Albert Einstein


..and start checking your sources in future.
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