Politics Trumps Hard-Headed Reason on Bicycle Helmets.

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Politics trumps hard-headed reason on bicycle helmets. By Chris Rissel, professor of public Health at the university of Sydney Chrish Rissel is a professor of Sydney University. His opinion piece “politics trumps hard- headed reason on bicycle helmets”. Emphasises reason and evidence in order to attempt to persuade readers that bicycle helmet laws should be relaxed. With a serious tone and general formal style, she seeks to keep emotion out of the debate, positioning the readers to feel his point of view is strongly supported by the facts and that the Queensland govern has erred in ignoring expert advice on the issue. The associated photograph of cycle lane reinforces she prerogatives that in some situations helmet laws could be relaxed without increasing the risk to the public. He academic gives him direct status and expert on the wider question of the public’s wellbeing while the discovery statement further strengths his authority and expertise in the area of cycling. Which is an area of both professional research and personal interest him. The photograph of him also gives the readers face with which is assistant to his words, made it easier to agree with his point of view. Nevertheless, he keeps his personal interest out of his argument, focusing instead on the facts, research finding, reports and logic of his case. This is reinforced by his use of period, such as “baseline measurement” and data collection”, which convey difficult, approach to the issue. The evidence, occurs repeatedly, stressing that he believes his planning, as soon as public policy, should be based on the facts. The issue also comforts the readers that his viewpoint is not dangerous or by personal beliefs. While advocating some relaxing of the strict, helmet laws; where the adjective strict subtly suggest the laws are overly restrictive: he also reasonably supports, the use helmets
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