"PK" wrote in message
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Maybe you would like to correct the distorted view you gave of the
original
article?
http://www.imj.ie/news_detail.php?nN...2518&nVolId=97

Or maybe I wouldn't because maybe I think that lumping lid laws in with
legislation keeping children off farm machinery is a gross distortion of the
actual danger of cycling. And maybe, just maybe, there was one of those
famous "traces of irony" in there.

Well, I apologise to anyone who was misled: I refer to the chart, not to the
body of the article. If you look at the attribution for the chart it is
Towner and Towner, two of the authors of the DfT's "independent" Research
Report 30. They, and two of the other authors, are connected via CAPT
(url:http://www.capt.org.uk/course/Course%20information.doc). All four of
these have prior publications in which they advocate helmets. There are
some reports with them listed as co-authors which advocate compulsion.

I have seen the same chart elsewhere, but not in documents which are freely
available (which is not to say they don't exist and my Googling is
deficient). I am spending Actual Money buying reports from both sides of
the argument, including (God help me) Lee, who co-wrote a masterpiece of
muddled thinking recently.

I asked the DfT last year what was the background of the other two authors,
on the grounds that any review of a controversial subject which includes
among its authors four who have already come out on one side of the argument
is unlikely to reflect a true balance, however well-intentioned and expert
they may be (and I have heard good reports of their other work). The DfT
did not reply.

As usual the basis for their claim is TRT. If TRT were removed from the
equation the whole pro lobby would pretty much disappear.

--
Guy
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