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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2ee717$0$2938$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Saved by her helmet Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:10:58 +0100 References:     <6jjXp.25577$Z04.6864@newsfe07.ams2> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6jjXp.25577$Z04.6864@newsfe07.ams2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d25c6ad3.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=2LRDSFiQn`d_;:_;YjZGX^207P;`IFYk On 25/07/2011 02:19, Phil W Lee wrote: >> "Just zis Guy, you know?"  considered Mon, >> 25 Jul 2011 01:06:49 +0100 the perfect time to write: >>> It's an exercise in proving that data is not the plural of >>> anecdote. > >> It's not even that. She has no idea what happened, had major >> concussion, and the helmet was cracked into three pieces, not >> crushed, so it apparently absorbed no energy at all. She's just >> regurgitating the propaganda from the former medical students that >> they are trained to recite every time they see a broken cycle >> helmet. > >> It could just as well be taken as evidence that wearing a helmet is >> likely to entice you into taking greater risks. > > Sure. Another former medical student sternly told me that I must start > wearing a helmet or give up cycling after my crash last year. This was > after a head CT scan came back completely normal, and I showed no signs > whatsoever of concussion, not even a headache. I am absolutely confident > that had I been wearing one he would have been equally confident that it > had Save My Life(TM). I am also confident that the problem I still have > with my right knee would be unaffected, and the broken rib would have > been exactly as bad.

And yet you've started wearing a helmet since then. Yet again you dishonestly imply something (that you ignored the doctor's advice and refused to start wearing a helmet) which is not actually the case. It's this kind of sociopathic slipperiness, and utter determination to deceitfully cover up inconvenient facts, which makes any right-thinking person, on any "side" of any debate, despise you. Ian Smith is just one example.