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Given that many people here are anime fans, I have an example, sort of. Back when Media Blasters had manufacturing errors that caused many of their disks to have mono audio, fans complained and Media Blasters claimed that their experts analyzed the disks and found nothing wrong with them.
Needless to say, the disks did have mono audio.
Of course, that's only sort of an example because it's just as likely that the company was simply lying about having consulted experts.
Or perhaps the company shopped around for some expert opinions it liked.
In another thread, I mentioned that there are three threshold criteria for trusting expert opinion:
In the situation you describe, (3) does not appear to be satisfied.