Intellectuals of every age like to think of themselves as being able to discern "secret knowledge" or greater knowledge that the unwashed masses have no clue about. I think that's what you're saying. Which is why pointy-headed intellectuals in the 21st Century will always side with gnostics of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Centuries.
The entire heretical episode of the DaVinci Code, which although being thought to be past by some is really yet to begin, has implications not only of a possibility to destroy the popular acceptance of most Christian Dogmae, but also an eerie propensity toward ushering in geopolitical events of a not entirely un-apocalyptic nature.
This is especially true as it regards the substitution of certain Continental European pedigrees ( really so widespread that they could be argued to include almost any white person; but this is the subject for another post ) for Christ. The product of such an line, if utilised by our enemy Satan, could prove himself very anti-Christian and cause a great deal of consternation abroad.
The Code Debacle offers the rationalist schools of higher criticism yet another opportunity to re-write the history of the New Testament, and re-convince generations of the clergy that they are essentially preaching nothing.
This practise has proved eminently successful for this anti-scripture front thus far.
The primary hope of exposing the falsity thereof lies, to my thinking, in wide dissemination among the Christian Laity of the basics of Textual Criticism, whereby all can understand that the so named 'lost gospels' are right out for all reasonable scholars.
Also a simple recounting of the details of the Council at Nicea would dispel most of the deceptions today promulgated by the ignorrant.
This would be an effective methodology toward defeating the biases of the greater media and academic intelligentsia.