The doctor who had actually administered the blink reflex tests, an expert in electromyography, had known nothing about the history of the Woburn families. This doctor had been concerned about the number of slow blink reflexes she was seeing among this group. She had wondered about the accuracy of her TECA-4 machine. To test the machine, she’d rounded up seven technicians from the hospital corridors. Their blink reflexes had all been textbook-normal.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 1090