I'd be more careful than that.

Indeed, it seems that the risk of significant vision loss consequence of LASIK surgery is ~5 times lower than that of contact-lens wearing, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASIK#Risks . However, it also seems that this risk is tiny, on the order of 0.05%. Other complications of LASIK seem much more likely (see the same link). It would be interesting to see a large study comparing LASIK with wearing contact lenses.