The Andromeda Strain/YMMV

Original Book

 * Straw Man Has a Point: One of the researchers is revealed to be epileptic in the final act; Hall sympathizes with the secrecy because in The Sixties, epilepsy was considered little different from Down's Syndrome - a deal-breaker that would keep a truly brilliant woman from working in any lab more important than a high school(and the source of her anti-establishment mindset). But even forgiving that, it's really is a disability, as her condition made her black out during testing and miss a vital clue as to destroying the Strain.

2008 Miniseries

 * Anvilicious: Robert Shenkkan, true to form, claimed it was his "obligation" to change the novel's story and make the main scientists race-mixed with a homosexual member who keeps his head cool when others don't.