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An international [[bestseller]] upon its release, ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' spurred interest in a number of ideas related to its central thesis. Response from professional historians and scholars from related fields was negative. They argued that the bulk of the claims, ancient mysteries, and [[conspiracy theories]] presented as facts are [[pseudohistorical]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Damian |last=Thompson |title=[[Counterknowledge|Counterknowledge. How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History]] |publisher=Atlantic Books |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-84354-675-7}}</ref><ref name="Miller2004">{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Laura |title=The Last Word; The Da Vinci Con |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E0DD103AF931A15751C0A9629C8B63 |access-date=16 July 2008 |date=22 February 2004 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kelley |first1=David H. |last2=Anderson |first2=Robert Charles |date=1982 |title=Holy Blood, Holy Grail: Two Reviews |journal=The Genealogist |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=249–263 |via=New England Historic Genealogical Society}}</ref> Historian [[Richard Barber]] called the book "the most notorious of all the Grail pseudo-histories… which proceeds by innuendo, not by refutable scholarly debate."<ref name=Barber/>
In a 1982 review of the book for ''[[The Observer]]'', novelist and literary critic [[Anthony Burgess]] wrote: "It is typical of my unregenerable soul that I can only see this as a marvellous theme for a novel."
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