Good point, Shraga18.
Rav Shach said that any college education whatsoever, even Touro, is full of apikorsus and is forbidden. (See Wikipedia.) May you drink wine with someone who went to Touro?
See where this leads?
The idea that anything said or reportedly said by a gadol or the Gadol HaDor somehow becomes canonical is not only fatally flawed — it’s not followed in practice.