I give you credit for not only listening to your own instinct and intuition, but being brave enough to tell others. To possibly allow others to feel that they have options, that they can make their own choices, that just because someone went to an institution that gave them a piece of paper, it does not mean that they know everything. When my children were babies I was told they were supposed to sleep on their sides to avoid SIDS. A decade later it's their back. A decade from now they'll have some contraption for a baby's head while they sleep.
We definitely live in a world where all things seem to be decided by committees of people who probably don't even have experience with the topics their deciding. Humanity survived all kinds of perilous things for thousands of years without the help of committees ;)