Please don't lump all us "pro-helmet people" into some elitist group. I merely encourage others to wear helmets for safety based on my own experience. I have in the past not worn a helmet myself and have admitted it many times. I don't look down on those who don't wear them.

However, I am disgusted with those who try to convince others that the practice of not wearing helmets is the "safer" option and that helmets may in fact cause more harm than good. As has been posted over and over in here, common sense should prevail and this thread should have ended pages ago. But there are some (who may be trolls or not) who are trying, unsuccessfully IMO, to go against common sense and persuade others to do the same.

Simple: Head hits pavement (regardless of how or why, by car or pothole, clipped in or not...) sans helmet and the head will be injured more than if a helmet was on at the time of impact and there to protect the skull - which is the only thing the helmet is for (God knows it isn't for fashion).

Now, those who argue against that are idiotic bufoons (and not because they don't wear helmets, which is their personal choice). And the game of providing dubious statistics, using hyperbole and the like cannot take place of common sense. Whether people choose to use their common sense is absolutely up them. It's their heads.