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The Simpsons Anti-Tiger Rock

megamasterdrive · 320.2K views · 2012-10-11 · 0:31

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Overview

A one-minute clip from The Simpsons in which Lisa demonstrates the Anti-Tiger Rock to Homer, showing that the rock keeps away tigers because no tigers are around. It is a short comedic scene about faulty causal reasoning.

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HN commenters post it as a joke whenever a thread involves correlation, causation, or unfalsifiable protective measures.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2019–2026

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ceejayoz · 2026-04 · Joke / meme

Crime's been descending from the COVID blip for a while, everywhere, Flock or otherwise. My city saw zero murders in Q1; 2021 saw ~15 by now. In other words: [VIDEO]

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rvnx · 2024-06 · Joke / meme

Such claims of protection, reminds me of this Simpsons episode: [VIDEO] It's true that the COVID-19 initial variants were very dangerous, and that the vaccines worked against these variants. However, the virus in 2024 is different from the one in 2019, but the side-effects, you are "guaranteed" to pay them. You really have to think twice.

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Mordisquitos · 2024-02 · Joke / meme

The issue is how do you provide the evidence for that. In other terms, how do you differentiate your effect from that of Homer Simpson's Bear Patrol and Lisa's tiger-repellant rock [0]? [0] [VIDEO]

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