minnsy

Never gonna claim that academia is free from capitalism. But unless we at least make an attempt to objectively evaluate the finding and test results, we're not doing anyone any favors here. Thanks. I will some reading over the next few days. I hope others try to look deeper too. A cause for concern from me on first pass over the publications: They start with an evaluation of baseball catcher's helmets. If they use same/similar testing protocols on hockey helmets to evaluate safety, I'd be very suspicious of there overall findings in regards to hockey. Baseball impact is very different than hockey dangers.

I'm gonna start my research here: http://www.beam.vt.edu/helmet/pubs.php Hopefully an informed opinion can come from it.

A lot of opinions being thrown about "it being just about the money", "the testing is crap", etc... As an academic, let me ask the obvious question: Has anyone here actually READ the publications? And NOT through a second/third hand source i.e. news article? We should all start there before we start dropping opinions that are ostrich-head-in-the-sand-y.