It is not that long ago folks would do vivisections of fish in university, as a teaching exercise. This insight could clearly be achieved some other way (as it is no longer done and folks still get diplomas) and universities are what I would term as reputable (certainly this one, which is top in it's specific field). An argument from reputation is weak and in my experience very often wrong, as it is in this case.
Experimentation on animals should quite simply not happen. When you torture something that you have absolute power over, this is ethically similar to torturing a child in my opinion. They have the same amount of proximate agency, and are similarly helpless.
Moral superiority does not exist. Furthermore, I find your discarding of context and the subsequent uncharitable reframing of what I said incredibly unnecessary.
Experimentation on animals should quite simply not happen. When you torture something that you have absolute power over, this is ethically similar to torturing a child in my opinion. They have the same amount of proximate agency, and are similarly helpless.