Kanoi,you say that you actually don’t know the teretz — you just rely on the Gedolim who hold like that. What I can tell you is that there are ma’ases in divrei Chazal where people got punished for listening to Gedolim when it was wrong. Start with the wife of Rabi Chaninah ben Tradion(Avodah Zorah, around 17B-18A).
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