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< Philip Greenberg 3/22/04 2/Social Studies I. A. Bicycling itself is risky, and blows to the head or death may easily result. B. The number of bicycle injuries that require hospitalization are somewhere in 500,000 to 750,000, and the head injury deaths mark up somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000. Placing this fact on a ranking scale with other injuries, serious head injuries on the bicycle-rider’s part are about 1.02% to 1.54% of the U,S.’s head damage count. The deaths by head injuries rank from .56% to .87%. Therefore, bicycling is no giant threat, and it isn’t a leading cause for head injury (which is greatest among motorists). II. A. Helmets may reduce impact a notch, yet there are some who may fall upon their crown and not break it, as jack did, and saunter away unscathed. Why wear helmets at all, if they are not reliable to keep you from death? B. Yet a helmet can at the very least provide some protection and scatter the shock. There have been many cases where a bicycler would have died or gone into a critical condition had it not been for that certain item we put on our head. For those who didn’t wear helmets and still survived, it is usually a great manner of luck. III. A. Most helmet tests are non-realistic, with inaquedate procedures and weak standards. We shouldn’t wear helmets if the testing dosen’t simulate a real injury, in which case will a wrong helmet be made. B. All helmets, if following the basic structure, are defensive in any case. There is a great weakness in the making of helmets: test subjects. The makers of helmets, instead of studying all of the cyclists, they rather study those who chose to get treated. Then how did Thompson, Rivera, and Thompson get 88% effectiveness as the result of helmet protection? Their work conducted via an HMO, they compared and contrasted the injury rate to the severity of bicyclists coming to be accounted for by the hospital. Those who wore helmets where inflicted with fewer injuries and severities than those who didn’t wear a helmet. IV. A. A downside of wearing a helmet is that some will not want to ride bicycles anymore and develop a sendentary lifestyle. B. Who ever would say helmets are bad things? They sometimes don’t work sufficiently enough, but they encourage many to cycle, at least. On the other hand, those who don’t like the prospect of bicycling may not get proper excersize and become overweight, as most are getting to be. With helmets, your chance of survival rises a bit as well. And the other point to get across is that there is no downside to wearing a helmet. You can possibly add a few more years to your life while wearing one. The ridiculous fact is that most don’t wear helmets for the stupidest reasons. Is your hair more important than your life? A helmet is basically an added layer of our head’s meager defense system. Think about a helmet next time you tumble down a hill with none on. >