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# 60 Minutes: Investigative Journalists
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4480/
- Published: 2006-05-03T10:40:13.000Z
- Updated: 2006-05-03T10:40:13.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

> According to CBS' “60 Minutes” a key aspect of Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” is a hoax. That's right, the Priory Of Sion doesn't really exist, or at least it didn't exist before the middle of the 20th century. Why does this matter, you ask. After all, it's just a work of fiction. Yes, except that Brown begins the novel by positing the existence of the Priory back to the 11th century as a fact.

[Bettnet](http://www.bettnet.com/blog/index.php/weblog/really%5Fyou%5Fmean%5Fits%5Fa%5Fhoax/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Alright, so it took *60 Minutes* three years to catch onto something that all other sane people have known for decades. The story is still significant because *60 Minutes* is an incorrigibly dishonest news program with strong secularist preferences, yet it debunks one of the central tenets of the anti-Christian *The Da Vinci Code*. If there is no Priory of Simon, most of the symbology that Brown recounts *ad nauseum* and that bolsters his book's credibility in the minds of the ignorant fail.