[PLUG-TALK] Bike helmets, science, and anger

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Russell Senior wrote:

> It seems there is an opportunity for some better study design in 
> there somewhere.  The metric should really be something more like 
> mortality+morbidity vs treatment (helmet-vs-no-helmet) times 
> exposure.

Without denying that better studies would be useful, I'll just return 
to my main point, i.e.,

* (properly designed) helmets would probably help pedestrians and
   automobile occupants about as much as they help bicyclists, but

* people only get hot and bothered when bicyclists don't wear them.

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Paul Heinlein
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