On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:06:46 GMT, "Steven M. Scharf"
wrote:

Very few people deny the evidence that shows that helmeted riders
had less severe head injuries in crashes involving head injuries.

But many deny the evidence - robust though it is, and colected by
traffic statistics programmes which have existed for decades - that
helmets have no measurable effect at the population level.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University