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- Published on: 18 January 2007
- Published on: 2 January 2007
- Published on: 18 January 2007Good data and constructive debate can help resolve controversial issuesShow More
Barry Pless claimed that critics of helmet laws rely on fatality data. Yet my review considered all injuries serious enough to require hospital admission in all jurisdictions where helmet wearing increased substantially (more than 40 percentage points). There were no obvious responses in percent head injury.[1]
In contrast, the large, ob...
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None declared. - Published on: 2 January 2007Evidence on cycle helmets is contested, ambiguous and inconclusive.Show More
The Editor of IP does not like the fact that a debate exists about cycle helmets. (1) He would like not to publish correspondence from helmet sceptics. He describes the letters he has received as frustrating and irritating “repeated almost boilerplate arguments”. It is welcome and honest of the Editor to state his willingness to publish helmet sceptic eletters despite his dislike for this view. It compares with the a...
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