Perhaps.

However, I went through an educational process which took history seriously, especially ancient history. So, when I come across Erich VD, Dan Brown, Michael Baigent, Graham Hancock, "Roman Piso" and other hucksters, I get a bit upset.

I suppose it is just fine that they accuse legitimate scholars of some nebulous, nefarious cover-ups with out challenge. Unfortunately, most scholars wave them off as beneath bothering with. In the face of no such challenge, these New Age hucksters crow that they must be right, since the "authorities" cannot refute them. Well, I may be just a secondary school teacher, but I do have a degree in Classical languages and history and have done archaeological work and have kept up reading and studying antiquity. These charlatans are counting on the public buying into their quackery on the theories that if what they say is not countered or if it is in print or on TV, it must be true. Guess what folks, it ain't. That's why I get a little extreme. It gets attention. Once I have that, they just might listen and then see where these bozos are just flat out wrong.