This article seems to take no effort to distinguish whether increases in injuries, in the numerous places it states it, are also relative increases.<p>Do I care whether statistics show that I'm almost three times as likely to sustain a head injury from walking than biking if I don't know the percentage of time people spent doing those activities to generate those statistics? No, I don't.<p>Smoke and mirrors.
What a stupid argument. This is a great example of how statistics can appear to support any random premise, no matter how obviously wrong it is.<p>So why don't we take basic protective measures to mitigate safety risks? Um, we do. Drivers wear seat belts, pedestrians cross at crosswalks, and cyclists wear helmets.<p>Of course if OP had phrased the question this way, it would be clear that he has no point. Instead, just to be pedantic he phrases it: "why don't we wear helmets all the time"? Such bullshit is what you're taught to look out for in your freshman rhetoric class.<p>Please, please wear a helmet when you ride a bike. OP himself admits that if you're in a serious accident a helmet will save your life. That's where the argument should have ended.