Standing in the well of the courtroom, before a gallery of only half a dozen spectators, he asked if Braids had looked at old aerial photographs, old maps, or collected any tannery records—any documentation at all—to determine the history of the Beatrice site. No, admitted Braids. Had Braids ever done this sort of work before, with microbiology and the degradation of chemicals? No, he had not, but he had read “a few articles in professional journals” about the subject.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 2084