[JoeGar]

For those who want a more thorough discussion of the historical inaccuracies in The Da Vinci Code, you can find at the Envoy blog by Carl Olsen and Sandra Meisel: Part One of a Special Planet Envoy Critique of The Da Vinci Code

For Heaven's sake, the book is a work of fiction. Olsen and Meisel don't seem to recognize this.

[The Iguana]

For Heaven's sake, the book is a work of fiction. Olsen and Meisel don't seem to recognize this.

Unfortunately, a lot of people - apparently including ABC - are taking it seriously.

And Brown himself has made clear that while the format is technically "fiction," he believes that the bizarre theories expounded in the book are actually plausible or supportable.