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You have way too much trust in the professors. Just a few students naive enough to do what they're supposed to would be an improvement on the status quo.
The problem is, we already have replications being done by Indian and Chinese scientists and... they're not very good. Here's one: "Local Literature Bias in Genetic Epidemiology: An Empirical Evaluation of the Chinese Literature", 2005:
The huge amount of data that could be gathered should allow for checking; data that is both different from what westerners would expect, and consistent over several independent students, is likely to be accurate. Or at least, not inaccurate because of lazy students.