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You continue to fail to respond to the points I've made, continuing to satisfy yourself with this endless cry of helmets put people off cycling.
So I'll argue against that- just this once- as evidenced by the follow-on resurgence of cycling in Australia, Canada and other places with compulsory helmet laws.
http://www.publish.csiro.au/he/HE11178
(amongst others).Hey, that is a bit unfair. You have put out a dozen or so links to academic articles most of which are only available to read by paying a significant fee. To make sense of these articles we need to read them and read follow up commentaries published in the journals and elsewhere. That takes time and I will do what I can with each of them in time.
The CSIRO study linked to above supports the case that helmet laws restrict levels of cycling and growth in cycling.You may not be aware of the level of academic political warfare being waged on this issue, indicated in some of the links you have posted. Not least over the editorship of Injury Prevention journal or between UNSW and University of Sydney. People who have experienced such academic politics say it is more like that of Saudi Arabia than the mild goings on in Brexit Mania or Trumpism.
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Head injuries are not the rare event you want to think they are as % of cyclists who are hospitalised.d
Source 1:
https://www.aans.org/en/Patients/Neurosurgical-Conditions-and-Treatments/Sports-related-Head-Injury
Source 2:
https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2674
(amongst others)
You continue to fail to respond to the points I've made, continuing to satisfy yourself with this endless cry of helmets put people off cycling.
So I'll argue against that- just this once- as evidenced by the follow-on resurgence of cycling in Australia, Canada and other places with compulsory helmet laws.
http://www.publish.csiro.au/he/HE11178
(amongst others).
The data supports helmets reduce head injuries. Again- I'm not arguing that long term inactivity is not more of a problem, just that helmets work. I have literally never suggested (and I cannot beleive I'm saying this again ) that helmets should be mandatory.
And if we're all honest- Helmet or no is not going to change inactivity levels in a wider spectrum of the population.
I anticipate waking up to you arguing a completely different point, yet again. Enjoy. xxx