And again, I don't think anyone is arguing that helmets cannot mitigate injury, even the occasional serious or fatal one. WRT to the data, there's enough wiggle room in it that we all get to see what we want to. That in itself reveals that the data does not point to any clear outcome.

And so again, nobody is telling anyone not to wear a helmet. Some of us are just pointing out that the protective benefit of helmets is not nearly as large as some of you would have us believe, that it's perfectly possible to ride in ways that negate the need for protective gear (and that some of us have decades of cycling experience without ever suffering a strike to the head/helmet), and that obnoxious helmet-nannying is unproductive at best.