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:

Before you can trust the expert consensus, you need to determine (1) what the proper class of experts is; (2) what exactly the issue in controversy is; and (3) how the experts actually stack up on that issue.

In the situation you describe, (3) does not appear to be satisfied.