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How can I help you?Maybe you have a question in mind? Perhaps you heard some really vivid soundbyte? Or maybe you are here to find something out:
Perhaps we could start with roughly where you stand on the issue right now:
If you click the link that most closely approximates to your position you should find some information which is addressed mainly to you. Or maybe you haven't yet formed a view and are reading up first? That's good, by the way. |
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I believe that few things in life are entirely
straightforward. Admittedly when I was younger I was prone to
certainty, but age and experience has pretty much cured me of
that. I now see the wisdom of Bertrand Russell's saying: "The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
always so sure of themselves, and wiser men so full of doubts."
Some people have decided that cycling is
dangerous, and that cycle helmets are the
way to fix this,
and in some cases the reasoning has gone the other way, trying to prove
cycling is dangerous in order to boost cycle helmets, but the more I
read about it the more convinced I become that the evidence is weak,
conflicting and often equivocal.
One of the most important things to know about helmet laws is that they have already been tried and we know they do not work - in fact they sometimes make things worse. This is an amazingly difficult concept to get across. I have a kind of walk-through tour of why they fail, but I'd encourage you first to look at the links above.
Finally, you might have decided to take some action based on what you know or have read:Thanks for visiting, and remember:
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L. Mencken