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{{Blockquote |Regardless of whether you agree with Brown's conclusions, it's clear that his history is largely fanciful, which means he and his publisher have violated a long-held if unspoken agreement with the reader: Fiction that purports to present historical facts should be researched as carefully as a nonfiction book would be.<ref name="faithfulreader1">{{cite web|url= http://www.faithfulreader.com/features/0405-da_vinci_debunkers.asp |title=Da Vinci Debunkers: Spawns of Dan Brown's Bestseller | first = Marcia | last = Ford |publisher=FaithfulReader |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040527122442/http://faithfulreader.com/features/0405-da_vinci_debunkers.asp |archive-date=2004-05-27 |access-date=2015-04-29 |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
[[Richard Abanes]] wrote:{{Blockquote | The most flagrant aspect... is not that Dan Brown disagrees with Christianity but that he utterly warps it in order to disagree with it... to the point of completely rewriting a vast number of historical events. And making the matter worse has been Brown's willingness to pass off his distortions as 'facts' with which innumerable scholars and historians agree.<ref name="faithfulreader1" />}}
The story opens with a page that states that "The Priory of Sion—a French [[secret society]] founded in 1099—is a real organization", whereas the [[Priory of Sion]] is generally regarded as a hoax created in 1956 by [[Pierre Plantard]]. The page also states that "all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents… and secret rituals in this novel are accurate", but this claim is disputed by numerous academic scholars and experts in numerous areas.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.historyversusthedavincicode.com/ |title = History vs The Da Vinci Code |access-date = 2009-02-03}}</ref>.
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