But that was all lost in a helmet rant which won’t build a single bike path, or convince someone not currently cycling to give it a shot. 

He apparently had no grasp of causality, and more-over was citing examples of helmet misuse that injured children, that had nothing to do with cycling helmets. His point made no sense, and he offered no concrete evidence or data to back it up, except distant statistics regarding the enactment of cycling laws and cycling use — correlating absolutely none of the other elements that contributed to the decline. 

To lay the infrastructure and healthcare woes of any nation at the feet of “The Culture of Fear” is hilarious, in that it uses the same visceral soap-box howling as said “Culture”. This is typical pseudo-intellectual garbage attempting to mask itself as Reason.

Now I’m just ranting.

We can’t address issues with helmets and helmet safety by throwing them in the trash — we do it through innovation, trial, and consumer education. You don’t stop trapping the mice because your trap doesn’t work; you build a better trap.