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I think the real danger is that smart people will find very complicated and contrived reasons (twist statistics) to justify whatever they want to justify.

The real reasons are often personal, simple and embarrassing things like: "I don't want to wear a helmet cause it is not cool", "I want to be contrarian", "I will create controversy and get a lot of discussion focused around me". And then it is just a matter of finding some statistics or anecdotes to support the position.

This happens in every sphere of life.

It seems this is a case of that. The danger is now not only to himself to also others if anyone starts listening and stops wearing helmets.

But I think in this case they went to far and the message contains its own destruction so to speak. They tried to hard to justify it and they appear too irrational to hopefully anyone take their advice to heart.