Health, How exactly did I prove I was wrong?
Since when do you look at the result as a proof?
A Gadol says something (actually here a number of them), people chose that they had more da’as torah then the gedolim. And since the majority chose they know more than R’ Shteinman (or that R’ Shteinman was misled) therefore that is a proof that it was true?
That is like saying that the miraglim were right cause the majority of people sided with them ofer Yehoshua and Calev.