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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 1689012" data-attributes="member: 2795">I could accept that if, IMO, it wasn't so obviously the case that Brown is deliberately trying to mislead people into believing that bogus scholarship like Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the ludicrous works of Margaret Starbird (which Brown apparently takes to heart) has any academic merit.In the "fact sheet" reference to the Priory of Sion, Brown references a proven fraudulent document as his source. This is on par with an anti-Semitic author using The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a reference for a fiction tale about evil Jews trying to take over the world. Except, of course, that a major publishing house like Doubleday wouldn't touch such a book, even with someone else's 10-foot pole, but if the target is subject to an acceptable prejudice, all bets are off.And, not only all of this, but Brown is a lousy writer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>