I had a long post written about Dan Brown bashing both his irrational critics and supporters. But I found a post at IIDB which sums it up better:

<i>The attention Dan Brown is getting would be like Michael Critchon getting all kinds of publicity because numerous creationist orginizations were objecting to his claims of dinosaurs ever existing while paleontologists from across the nation demand to know where the hell he got the idea that diplodocus had a neck frill and spit poison.</i>