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by imaginenore 4018 days ago
This guy should not be a health professional.

"But helmets are not supposed to shatter" - not true. Many bike helmets are designed to shatter on impact, that's how they absorb the energy.

http://www.bhsi.org/standard.htm

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Why was this downvoted? To me this looks like a perfectly valid criticism.
The cited page does not even contain the word "shatter".