Originally Posted by
rruff
Like many others here you believe that the helmet helped you, and possibly it did. But these are just anecdotes... we have to look at statistics for the whole population to see if helmets are beneficial in general.
I don't enjoy these threads, but after I see something like 20+ posts in a row claiming that their helmet saved their life and anyone would be a complete idiot not to wear one... I feel it is necessary to point out that the evidence does not support this stance. We most certainly don't need MHLs, and frankly I'd like to find out why current helmets *don't* work, so that maybe something more effective could be done.
Just like in the last thread, you go on and on about statistics. Yet, the links to the studies you posted were biased. Still, you claimed (in the last thread on this topic) that the statistics provided by the studies in your links were more credible then any other link to any other study that quoted statistics where helmets DID save lives. And THEN you went on to post that you didn't need to prove this, it is just a fact (because you say so).
As for my post in this thread being an anecdote, you are again incorrect. I did have a bike accident and my head did hit the pavement. I'm not giving an account of what happened - I'm providing facts (and have the $4,000 ER bill to prove it). Perhaps if I were to add myself in with the statistics of those whose heads were protected by helmets, you'd accept the validity in that?
If you really want to find out why helmets *don't* work, I'm in agreement with Patriot. Put one on and go running into a cement wall over and over and over again head first. Then remove helmet and repeat. Maybe you can figure it out and change the world, making it a safer place where people's heads will never come into contact with pavement because they aren't wearing helmets that *don't* work.
