Scholarship is not about cutting anyone slack. It is about examining the evidence and making conclusions. If Witherington has decided that the Jesus Tomb documentary is full of holes, then he is certainly entitled to say as much.

In addition, Jacobovici seems to agree that the James Ossuary is genuine, since he includes it as part of the evidence that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus of Nazareth.

So far, only the press in Witherington’s native Kentucky have delicately raised the issue of the pot calling the kettle bla…that is, the pot calling the ossuary cracked in Witherington’s overheated (the gentleman protests too much) protestations against the latest “biggest New Testament find”* in his lifetime.

Lexington County Herald, 2/27/07
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/16791591.htm

On his blog, Witherington fired a final salvo by referring to the Titanic and saying Cameron “has now jumped on board another sinking ship full of holes, presumably in order to make a lot of money before the theory sinks into an early watery grave. Man the lifeboats and get out now.”

In 2003, Witherington and co-author Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, wrote in The Brother of Jesus that they believed an ossuary bearing the inscription “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,” was authentic.
A few months after The Brother of Jesus was published, Israel’s Antiquities Authority decided that the ossuary was a fake. It charged the ossuary’s owner, Oded Golan, with fraud and illegally selling archaeological artifacts outside of Israel. His trial continues, 21/2 years after it began.

Witherington said that he and Shanks stand by their conclusion that the ossuary is authentic and are not likely to change their minds, regardless of the trial’s outcome.
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* “This is probably going to be the biggest New Testament find in my lifetime, as big as the Dead Sea scrolls,” said Ben Witherington, a New Testament professor at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.

National Geographic News
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1021_021021_christianrelicbox.html
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If Witherington can be such a zealot about HIS OWN wacky claims about HIS OWN phony ossuary, it would only seem sporting that he would cut Simcha Jacobovici (Witherington’s former partner in crime. He was the man who helped Witherington hype his own phony “James Ossuary” about 4 years ago.) and James Cameron some slack.

If you want DaVinci Code, Knights Templar, Freemasons, and other ridiculous theories, this is a site for you. All are mentioned, and the authors manage to connect them with the Talpiot tomb.

But if you look for logic, you are in serious trouble. Take, for example, this quote from the site: “It requires a flight or two of fancy, but if we connect a few dots we can draw a line through history from the tomb straight to today.” For those who are unwilling to engage in flights of fancy but prefer serious scholarship, their ideas have no basis.

I jumped in and got the domain name ChristsTomb.com and now don’t know what to do.
If anyone is interested in a joint venture or whatever: MyManJones@gmail.com . I really do not think folks believe this yet. I mean look at the Shroud Of Turin and how long it has been studied and debated.

There’s original interview footage and articles.