Similarly, I'd suggest that authority needs to be questioned, and to stand up to questioning. Getting research scientists who experiment on animals to justify this is important. It's a pain for them, of course, and their critics are generally ignorant people who don't know what they're talking about, but that doesn't mean they don't have a point.
I think the point about questioning authority is that it is used for a number of different things, from challenging authority, to resisting authority. The point should be to question authority, to put the onus on authority to provide an answer, and on the questioner to consider and try to understand that response. The key point is not the asking of the question, but the understanding and evaluation of the response. The point is to teach people to come up with ways to evaluate the pronouncements of others on subjects they don't entirely understand.