"...damned lies, and statistics" earlier attestation claim
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 10 03:05:23 UTC 2006
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Stephen Goranson wrote:
> died to early to qualify; or Giffen was mistaken. The putative earlier saying
> source, about witnesses who are liars, damned (or outrageous) liars, and
> experts/scientific experts/expert witnesses, is, at least, attested earlier
> than 1892, e.g., by Thomas Henry Huxley in 5 Dec 1885.
Thanks for the interesting information you present in this posting; I will
look into it further. I'm not sure if I have the 1885 Huxley citation
about witnesses; can you supply the bibliographical details, please?
Fred
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