"...damned lies, and statistics" earlier attestation claim

[Fred Shapiro]

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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