Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

This always annoys me, how do they know this? I think it's more psychology, the helmet is fucked so the presumption is that your skull would be just as fucked. Now I'm not saying that helmets do not offer any protection it's this assumption from people who really have no knowledge about the strength of a helmet to be able to make that judgment that you'd be dead or you'd have this problem or that problem.

Maybe you're right, the neurosurgeon also mentioned the helmet had avoided a nasty injury... but what does he know