Atheists Against Pseudoscientific Nonsense

09/07/2026

As an atheist and an adult, I have learnt to rely on others, to ask for help when a load is bigger than me.
That is what networks are for, my family, my friends, even acquaintances. I have helped them and vice-versa.

Also, I've learnt to face my problems without needing an invisible father figure that is supposed to be here all the time.

I don't know if she is honest with the last part about needing answers, as I've seen this sort of question again and again.
-AMV

09/07/2026

Amazing, because geometry and perspective are optional when you are desperate to believe the Sun is a tiny desktop lamp floating inside a tuft of candy floss.
​What you’re staring at isn't a cosmic malfunction or "an error in the Matrix," it's a completely normal atmospheric optics effect called a contrail shadow. A commercial jet flew at 35,000 feet, leaving a trail of condensed ice crystals above a lower deck of translucent clouds. The Sun, sitting high up at 93 million miles, shines straight down through that thin jet trail, casting a dark shadow onto the cloud layer underneath it.

​If the Sun were hanging out below those altocumulus clouds like a glowing lightbulb, commercial pilots would be announcing over the intercom: "If you look out the left window, ladies and gentlemen, we're currently flying over the Sun. Please keep your seatbelts fastened so you don't fall into the local light fixture." High-altitude weather balloons would have recorded it decades ago, showing a tiny little flashlight burning up a couple of US states while leaving the rest of the planet in pitch darkness.

Heck, nowadays there are people tying plushies of their favorite anime characters to giant helium balloons and recording how they get to the stratosphere, and the higher those balloons with a GoPro camera get, the further away the Sun looks. You can try it right now, you don't even need to buy a GoPro, in case your conspiranoid self believes that brand of cameras has CGI/AI video generators or something like that.

​You are looking at a shadow cast downward onto a translucent sheet of cloud, but because your brain refuses to parse 3D depth, you think the shadow is behind the light source.
​It's an optical illusion, mate. You haven't uncovered a localized, low-altitude artificial bulb. But you certainly are proving that line-of-sight perspective can thoroughly confuse someone who thinks a cloud deck is a solid ceiling.
-AMV

09/07/2026

Why Dara Ó Briain won't joke about Muslims and Islam when he used to joke a lot about religions in general?
-AMV

09/07/2026

Does Neil deGrasse Tyson believe in UFOs?
Neil explains how people believe in aliens and flying objects, as we tend to assign agency to things we cannot comprehend.
-AMV

09/07/2026

Christopher telling a high ranking Catholic Church member how his church has been evil throughout history and not a force for good in the world.
I like how contusively he hits it where hurts.
-AMV

09/07/2026

Thinking your training in a cage prepares you for a battle against an enraged primate is entirely detached from biological reality.

I have nothing against this fighter, I won't make fun of his victory records, and he even said this is basically a joke that escalated out of proportion, with no actual confirmation, but let's take it as if it were, just for fun.

An elite human strike might look impressive on paper. A trained heavy hitter can throw a punch delivering around 2,500 to 5,000 Newtons of force, and a human can exert a few hundred pounds of crushing pressure on a neck. But human anatomy is built around fine motor control, balance, and endurance. We have a high percentage of slow-twitch muscle fibers, delicate facial bones, and zero natural armor.

Chimpanzee muscle fibers are composed of roughly 67% fast-twitch fibers, making them roughly 1.35 to 1.5 times stronger than a human pound-for-pound. They pull, lift, and leverage force with explosive speed.

While an average human bite force sits around 160 PSI, a chimpanzee clocks in at roughly 1,300 PSI, equipped with massive, dagger-like canines designed to shred through tissue and crack bone. It's a living hydraulic press with 2-inch (5 centimeters) long dagger teeth.

A chimp doesn't care about jab-cross combinations, guard passes, or judges' scorecards. A chimp goes straight for the face, fingers, and ge****ls, using immense grip strength to pull limbs out of their sockets while biting through flesh.

Step two (which encompasses fighting another wild animal with a sword) never happens, because step one ends in an intensive care unit in the best case scenario, with him being fed through a straw for the rest of his natural life, in a not so bad scenario, or with him not being alive in the worst one.
-AMV

09/06/2026

We now share the world with an entire generation that cannot remember a time before the smartphone, people who take our unprecedented level of modern comfort and well-being entirely for granted. They operate under the illusion that this comfortable existence is the baseline of human history, failing to realize it is a fragile statistical anomaly. Maintaining this standard requires constant, deliberate effort.

We all are susceptible to this.
​How often do you feel genuine gratitude for your baseline status? For the simple fact that you weren't struck by a bus today, or that you aren't currently suffering from a debilitating infection or severe illness like diarrhea?
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​In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker highlights this cognitive glitch: people treat peace, health, and prosperity as the natural order of things, viewing any minor inconvenience as an intolerable injustice. In reality, suffering, disease, and chaos are the default state of nature. The safety and comfort we enjoy aren't guaranteed privileges in the slightest, and I want to convey to you that they are hard-won triumphs against a hostile universe that require active maintenance to preserve. But people forgetting this reality will end pushing us back to that chaos.
-AMV

09/06/2026

A few days ago, I shared a post about how the most important public hospital in Mexico suffered a salmonella outbreak at the workers' cafeteria. It affected 135 physicians, 41 of whom required hospitalization due to the severity of their symptoms.

​The issue wasn't just that the private catering company failed to properly sanitize the food, the hospital's own nutrition department failed to conduct required safety testing.

​And now, a high-ranking official in public healthcare is making these kinds of mistakes.
​In case you were wondering, he has no background in healthcare whatsoever. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science, and his entire career consists of holding administrative government positions.
-AMV

09/06/2026

The humblest.
-AMV

09/06/2026