Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Regarding that, didn't you yourself say "There are still folks deluded enough to believe that a bicycle helmet is effective protection against being struck by a motor vehicle. Those of us on planet Earth realize that there is no way to protect against motor vehicles, other than to avoid them entirely."
in the specific case of car-bike collisions, you believe that there is no protection afforded by helmets. In that case, you answer your own challenge to the other fellow.
No. I believe that a helmet cannot save a life when there are multiple causes of death, which is the norm for high speed bicycle/automobile interactions.
I am not aware of anyone on this forum who does not believe that a helmet can mitigate injury. The debate is about how much mitigation, and what types of injury. Some folks (you, for instance) appear to believe that a bicycle helmet has nearly miraculous protective abilities, including the ability to protect the brain when the cyclist is struck by a car moving at freeway speeds. Others of us (me, for instance, who has personally attended high speed bicycle/automobile interactions in which the cyclist was in several pieces) find that optimistic at best. Hence the thread.