My father was an expert witness in construction defect and he told me about some of the times he was hired to produce a report about the causes of some defect o

My father was an expert witness in construction defect and he told me about some of the times he was hired to produce a report about the causes of some defect or failure and that sometimes the entity that hired him was at fault. He usually wasn't retained for trial in those cases, but it earned him a reputation for honesty. Seeing these pay-for-opinion "experts" fills me with a deep disgust.