Based on my own personal experience working for the Brazilian government
Oh, I see. You feel guilty for supporting the corrupt and being corrupt yourself, so you project your self loathing onto others.
on scientific data that you will never be able to read because you don't know Portuguese and Google won't translate because they're pdfs,
You know you can literally copy and paste the text into translators, right? The numbers and graphs don't need to be translated. If this really were so important and such damping evidence, wouldn't you be trying as hard as possible to translate it? Also, scientists tend to share data globally. Unless you think all English speaking scientist are paid shills?
by not being sheltered playing video games and absorbing second-hand info from teachers, professors, colleagues and mainstream press.
That damn education! How dare people listen to educated professionals and play video games or watch television! I shouldn't listen to MY professors, teachers, press and colleagues, I should listen to YOUR friends, family, press and colleagues! Why? Because YOU like them!
I have every reason to be extremely biased and angry. Do you?
No. Because consider for a moment who people are more likely to listen to, the peop,email calmly and civilly presenting data, opinions and findings or a guy with a kickstarter calling everyone shills and other names, throwing tantrums and acting like some mid twenties college activist?
If this really was so important to you, wouldn't you use the most effective tools and tinge your disposal? To get as many people to take you as seriously as possible? Because it seems to me that these 'corrupt shills' you hate are getting more support with calm, polite, reasoned arguments while you get your comments removed for acting childish.
ALSO:
That's not a "No, I am not using sock puppet accounts to shill."
Watch, it's easy. I, idene, am not using any alts to shill. I am not shilling at all. Your turn.
It really is a very simple answer to give and sentence to type. The longer you take to answer it, the worse YOU look.