I heard recently, “X was telling me how you were saying that people shouldn’t wear bicycle helmets”. This is not correct; I know better than to violate tribal norms like that, and bicycle helmets have been measured to reduce head injuries by 64%, offset by a pile of sweat and a 36% increase in neck injuries (i.e., a net reduction in horrible injuries). However, the focus on and attention devoted to helmets-helmets-helmets for bicycling-bicycling-bicycling is not at all rational. If helmets make sense for bicycles, they make sense for other activities with a similar risk of head injury, there are other bicycle risk mitigations that work about as well that we scarcely mention, there are other similarly-sized risks with mitigations that are seemingly not to be discussed at all, and there are much larger risks that most people willingly expose themselves to every day that bicycling (with or without a…
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