Comments on: 09/12/2012 – Surprise, Surprise http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: william http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55832 william Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:19:14 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55832 i have rode my bike for more than 20 years and i dont ever recall falling off of my bike and hitting my head. your arms,shoulders,legs and feet hit the ground first. i feel that having laws that force you to wear a helmet is a waste of time they have em in victoria and i have lived there i have rode my bike for more than 20 years and i dont ever recall falling off of my bike and hitting my head.
your arms,shoulders,legs and feet hit the ground first.
i feel that having laws that force you to wear a helmet is a waste of time they have em in victoria and i have lived there

]]> By: dr2chase http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55827 dr2chase Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:33:47 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55827 Why, exactly, should a child riding a bicycle be required to wear a helmet, yet not in a car? Feel free to cite comparative statistics showing that the relative danger is higher on the bike. Otherwise, "same roads, same rules", right? Free clue: have a look at the Netherlands and children there. Bicycles are not inherently dangerous. Cars and broken driving culture are. Why, exactly, should a child riding a bicycle be required to wear a helmet, yet not in a car? Feel free to cite comparative statistics showing that the relative danger is higher on the bike. Otherwise, “same roads, same rules”, right?

Free clue: have a look at the Netherlands and children there. Bicycles are not inherently dangerous. Cars and broken driving culture are.

]]> By: DS http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55823 DS Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:24:05 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55823 @ Ben: "I always wear a helmet and try to talk others into doing the same..." Do you also try to change them to your church? Good God, man, leave them alone! @ Ben: “I always wear a helmet and try to talk others into doing the same…”

Do you also try to change them to your church? Good God, man, leave them alone!

]]> By: DS http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55822 DS Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:18:39 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55822 So sorry, Binks, helmets are NOT designed to break. They are designed to crush in a controlled manner under compression and supposedly to decelerate the brain in a straight line under 300 gees. Trouble is the straight line and 300 gee thing is way out of date and out of synch with what science now knows about brain injury. That's why they just haven't made a difference. All they do is produce gobs of "It broke so it must've saved me" stories. You and Broken Record should look at things like http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4641 and http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4689 among much else. So sorry, Binks, helmets are NOT designed to break. They are designed to crush in a controlled manner under compression and supposedly to decelerate the brain in a straight line under 300 gees. Trouble is the straight line and 300 gee thing is way out of date and out of synch with what science now knows about brain injury.

That’s why they just haven’t made a difference. All they do is produce gobs of “It broke so it must’ve saved me” stories. You and Broken Record should look at things like http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4641 and http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4689 among much else.

]]> By: Adam in Baltimore http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55818 Adam in Baltimore Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:44:28 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55818 Broken Record for Facts, I've done the research and your claims are quite false. There are not "tons" of studies showing that bicycle helmets work. There have only been a few studies, and the newer studies do not support the claims of the few older studies. Here is a meta-analysis of conclusions of all the known studies, the "Publication bias and time-trend bias in meta-analysis of bicycle helmet efficacy: A re-analysis of Attewell, Glase and McFadden, 2001" by Rune Elvik http://www.cycle-helmets.com/elvik.pdf The conclusions were that, "According to the new studies, no overall effect of bicycle helmets could be found when injuries to head, face or neck are considered as a whole." Broken Record for Facts, I’ve done the research and your claims are quite false. There are not “tons” of studies showing that bicycle helmets work. There have only been a few studies, and the newer studies do not support the claims of the few older studies.

Here is a meta-analysis of conclusions of all the known studies, the

“Publication bias and time-trend bias in meta-analysis of bicycle helmet efficacy:
A re-analysis of Attewell, Glase and McFadden, 2001″ by Rune Elvik

http://www.cycle-helmets.com/elvik.pdf

The conclusions were that, “According to the new studies, no overall effect of bicycle helmets could be found when injuries to head, face or neck
are considered as a whole.”

]]> By: Widsith http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55786 Widsith Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:00:29 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55786 And since we can't delete comments, I can't go back and correct the spelling of "unconscious" in that last one. :-( And since we can’t delete comments, I can’t go back and correct the spelling of “unconscious” in that last one. :-(

]]> By: Widsith http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55785 Widsith Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:58:16 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55785 I've been knocked uncoscious twice in my life: Once when I was thrown forward in a car in a sudden stop, and once when I was hit in the head with a baseball bat. Neither incident required any medical treatment; after I woke up and the swelling went down I was fine. I really doubt that falling off a bike is going to cause a greater impact than that baseball bat did. I can't back up that guess with personal experience, though, because since I began riding more than 50 years ago I have never yet hit my head in any of my bike crashes. I’ve been knocked uncoscious twice in my life: Once when I was thrown forward in a car in a sudden stop, and once when I was hit in the head with a baseball bat. Neither incident required any medical treatment; after I woke up and the swelling went down I was fine. I really doubt that falling off a bike is going to cause a greater impact than that baseball bat did. I can’t back up that guess with personal experience, though, because since I began riding more than 50 years ago I have never yet hit my head in any of my bike crashes.

]]> By: fencer1964 http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55783 fencer1964 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:27:30 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55783 Ok, one more time: it's not your skull you need to worry about, it's your brain. Impacts that do not damage the skull can kill from brain injury. Helmets increase deceleration time which reduces overall forces on the brain itself *inside your very durable and lightweight cranium.* Concussions may kill or cause permanent brain injury with loss of function or death. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_injury#Concussion ) Ok, one more time: it’s not your skull you need to worry about, it’s your brain. Impacts that do not damage the skull can kill from brain injury. Helmets increase deceleration time which reduces overall forces on the brain itself *inside your very durable and lightweight cranium.* Concussions may kill or cause permanent brain injury with loss of function or death. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_injury#Concussion )

]]> By: fencer1964 http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55782 fencer1964 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:16:04 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55782 Citation needed. Citation needed.

]]> By: Zorba http://yehudamoon.com/09122012/#comment-55771 Zorba Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:47:59 +0000 http://yehudamoon.com/?p=3474#comment-55771 Don't say that too loudly. Some idiot will try to make into a LAW. Now remember that LAWS are oh-so-sacred. Don’t say that too loudly. Some idiot will try to make into a LAW. Now remember that LAWS are oh-so-sacred.

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