Has anyone seen this British study that ATTACKS our U.S. NTHSA's research on Helmet`s

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Sent by tigerlily
http://john-adams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/motorcycle%20helmets.pdf

Has anyone ever seen this 1982 British report that criticizes our NHTSA helmet studies?
Here are two excerpts:

Abstract. The “experiment” in the United States of America in which twenty-eight states in the latter half of the 1970s repealed their laws which made the wearing of motorcycle helmets compulsory is widely believed to have proved conclusively that helmet legislation is a highly effective public health measure. The principal statistical foundations of this belief are found in a reprot to Congreess by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and in a study by Watson, et al. These foundations ae examined and found to be open to criticism.

The evidence surveyed here suggests that the effect, if any, of helmet legislation on motorcycling fatalities is perverse. The “risk compensation theory” is proffered as a possible explanation of the available evidence.

Here’s another:
In 1979 the death rate decreased by 2.6% in the twenty-eight repeal states and by 7.8 in the nonrepeal states. Throughout the period, the death rate of the repeal states was on average 19% lower than that of the nonrepeal states.
TigerLily

If it's true that the NHTSA was banished from testifying to states about their helmet laws, does someone have a source for that? I'd like to include it in my testimony if I can find it.
Thanks.
TigerLily
 
you can get your answer from AMA or MRF. I should know this but I can't remember who made this happen, but it came down in congressional action.
Pan
 
US Code Title 49 Chapter 301 Section 30105
found on page 480 here: http://uscode.house.gov/pdf/2007/2007usc49.pdf
Jan
 
Mark
" § 30105. Restriction on lobbying activities
(a) IN GENERAL.—No funds appropriated to the
Secretary for the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration shall be available for any
activity specifically designed to urge a State or
local legislator to favor or oppose the adoption
of any specific legislative proposal pending before
any State or local legislative body."
I always wondered how they could get away with putting out the pamphlets that "urge in favor of" helmets and even a specific look of certain helmets.
Mark