Bert--
I ask advice, or at least ask for an opinion, from lots of people, all the time that I have no intention of following.
So many "experts" are so completely self-serving and venal and generally just so full of [censored] that I wouldn't think of taking their advice without qualification. I just include it in the picture of reality that I am constantly building and re-building
The Quakers have a saying -- "everyone has a piece of the truth".