[Ads-l] [for QI] "For every expert there is an equal and opposite witness"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

I looked in Charles Fort's "The Book of the Damned" and found a thematic match.

Year: 1919
Book Title: The Book of the Damned
Author: Charles Fort
Quote Page 147
Publisher: Boni and Liveright, New York
Database: Google Books
https://books.google.com/books?id=Py4zAQAAMAAJ&q=%22fat+experts%22#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
Or there's only one process, and "see saw" is one of its aspects.
Three or four fat experts on the side against us. We find four or five
plump ones on our side. Or all that we call logic and reasoning ends
up as sheer preponderance of avoirdupois.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excellent work Peter and Ben. It is difficult to trace because the
> notion can be expressed in many ways.
> Here is a partial match in 1913.
>

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