oksani

When I talk about thinking for yourself, I meant thinking for yourself, not letting "the US government" think for you. If you look at the actual studies they base that advice on, you can see that they have more holes in them than Swiss cheese. There is not one single *valid* study that shows any value to bicycle helmets. The only studies that show anything convincingly are the ones that demonstrate that mandatory helmet laws lead to a decline in the number of cyclists (which leads to a corresponding reduction in *absolute* number of injuries, and which is often framed by idiots and/or those with an agenda as an actual improvement in safety). The reason the government and the doctors believe otherwise is that they have a strong bias in favour of anything "safety-related". Most people are not very smart, after all, including those in government offices and medical offices. I am sure you can easily come up with dozens of examples of really moronic government policies as well as idiotic medical policies. This is one of them.