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On 26/07/2011 19:00, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > On 26/07/2011 18:35, Zapp Brannigan wrote: >> But that's a quite different point. I agree that cycling is not an >> especially dangerous activity, but it does have foreseeable risks >> associated with collisions and accidents. A helmet offers *some* >> mitigation of harm if the worst should happen. > > It's quite plausible that helmets might mitigate minor injuries. Society > tends not to record such things in any detail so we don't really know a > lot about it, it being accounted a matter of no real concern. > > The same could be said for pedestrian helmets, of course, since the head > injury proportion for pedestrians is about the same. > > However, evidence that wearing a lid results in a net reduction in > average risk of serious harm is rather hard to come by. Lots of theories > are floated for this, the most common being risk compensation.

Do you think you could just clarify for us whether you wear a helmet? Thanks. It's just that otherwise, your arguments may look a little insincere.