In other words, hitting your knee with a mallet will have no effect, unless I happen to hit it at the moment that your knee-jerk reflex just happens to be causing you to kick? Um, you appear to have no clue what a reflex is or how it works.
A reflex is triggered by some stimulus; namely, the presence of something in the back of the mouth. Saliva triggers the reflex. But neither Terri nor her pharynx know the difference between saliva and any other liquid; whatever is placed in the back of the mouth will trigger the reflex.
Give it up, you condescending twit.
From the guy who doesn't know what a reflex is, that's almost enjoyably humorous. But I suggest that you try to understand things using small words; the big words are way too much for you. For example, you clearly looked up the swallowing reflex on the Internet after a recent post, but only ended up more confused. Hint: when feeding a comatose patient, no bolus is involved at all, let alone needs to be "propelled" to the back of the mouth.
Sucking on a washcloth and eating Jello, your so-called proof that Terri could swallow, would involve a bolus.
And what's with this "comatose patient" comparison? Are you trying to compare a comatose patient to a severely brain damaged PVS patient?
All the same to you, I guess. I sure do hope they took you off patient care.