On 7 May 2006, at 22:13, Simon Glass wrote:
Anyone who criticises Brown for stating supposition as fact is perhaps overlooking the point that this is a novel, therefore it is the characters therein who are believing every nugget of conjecture spoonfed to them, plus indirectly, millions of gullible readers. It's not something Brown himself is guilty of, as it isn't claiming to be a history or archaeology book
no, that is exactly what he did do not only at the start of the book does he state as fact that the Priory of Sion is a real organisation as are the Dossiers Secrets but he's said it on television interviews too. one fact that all his research seems to miss was that in fact the Priory of Sion was invented by 3 french guys in the 1970s as an elaborate hoax to put forward one of them as the rightful heir to the french throne, only the guy behind it all lost his nerve and confessed to it on french national tv at the end of the 70s