On 19 Mar 2007 05:54:01 -0700,
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[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Does your training explain how putting something on your head
> > prevents injuries to your legs?
>
> It doesn't. I'm quite happy to wait for a leg to heal though. The
> brain is the most important organ in the body and whether a helmet
> protects me when I fall or not, I want to give it every fighting
> chance possible.
I see. Presumably you also carry a lucky rabbits foot?
> Putting something on your head does not protect
> anything but what is inside your head but it must be argued, what is
> in your head is quite important.
That's the whole question, though, isn't it - does putting something
on your head protect what's inside your head?
If it doesn't, if it in fact makes it worse, then you'd be better off
abandoning the hat and just trusting that rabbit's foot. It would
then be argued that trusting something that makes matters worse to do
some good is actually much much more crazy than trusting dead rodents
> I am quite happy for people not to wear helemts. Its really up to
> them. Having attended so many cycle accedidents as a medic, I can
> see first hand the difference between wearing one or not.
Really? You attend so many accidents that there's a statistically
significant number identical in every respect except that in one the
victim was wearing a hat, and in other they weren't. You really ought
to write this up and publish it, because you've evidently got data
no-one else in the field has ever managed to accumulate.
Please, I beg you. I implore - publish your data.
> I'm fed up of the helmet debate anyway. If you don't want to give
> what is in your head a fighting chance, there may not be much in it
> to protect anyway. Go ahead an add your statistics and stuff now.
"Statistics and stuff"?
I am reminded that it is very difficult to logically argue someone
out of a position they weren't logically argued into.
The "not much in it anyway" argument is crass, by the way. Did your
medical training extend to telling you people that disagree with you
must be stupid? Did it explain how stupid people, who have no brain,
manage to operate a computer ? Has it ever occurred to you that you
personally are not omniscient? No?
When people resort to stupid, crass, throw-away comments such as that,
it normally means they do actually recognise they have no sound basis
for their opinion, so maybe there's hope for you yet.
regards, Ian SMith
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