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Old 09-09-14 | 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by rekmeyata
typical of your type of responses, find a sentence or two that has sort of some negativity concerning helmets and overlook the 20 or so paragraphs explaining that helmets are effective at preventing a lot of injuries. And of course completely overlook the government site of also showing statistics going back some 20 years that helmets are effective at preventing a lot of injuries.
This is typical of my responses -- I'll point out nonsense and flawed arguments on either side of the helmet issue. You argue that helmets are the way to go, and that's fine, but when you cite sources, very often they don't say what you claim the do, or support helmet use to the level you claim.

Instead of citing individual studies, you typically link to broad, catch-all sites about the issue which contain counterarguments and studies disproving what you are trying to support, along with older, widely discredited research. You're not alone in this -- the barehead brigade also misrepresent sites and citations to serve their needs as well.
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