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1	!!!Original Book
2	* StrawmanHasAPoint: Stone is a little too willing to ignore some rather serious stupidity on the part of others;
3	** [[spoiler:Leavitt is revealed to be epileptic in the final act; Hall sympathizes with the secrecy because in TheSixties, epilepsy was considered a deal-breaker that would keep a truly brilliant man from working in any lab more important than a high school.]]
4	--->'''Hall''': Why in the hell didn't he tell us about it?\
5	'''Stone''': No top lab would have him if they knew. Insurance, prejudice, all that crap from the Middle Ages.
6	*** ...but even forgiving that, it really ''is'' [[spoiler:a serious disability, as his condition made him black out while reviewing testing and miss a vital clue as to destroying the Strain.]]
7	** Also, the crashed probe - Hall and Stone find it in the county doctor's office, opened. Hall sympathizes because most county doctors don't deal with BSL-4 pathogens;
8	--->'''Stone''': The damn fool opened it!\
9	'''Hall''': (sarcastic) Yeah, every country doctor should run his office like the lunar lab.
10	*** ...but the thing ''was'' covered in warning labels.
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12	!!!1971 Movie
13	* StrawmanHasAPoint: The President had delayed nuking Piedmont, panicking the scientists who insist it must be done. Later, when the scientists frantically advise the White House to cancel the nuke, the presidential adviser says the President will be happy to know he had originally made the right call, to which Doctor Levitt snarks to congratulate him on his scientific brilliance. However, the President WAS right.
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15	!!!2008 Miniseries
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17	* DeathOfTheAuthor: The producers used Crichton's declining health to [[AssPull shove]] a GreenAesop into one of his seminal Panic Is Evil works.
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