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Gullibility research is an established area, as these things are important for selling products and getting people voted to office. For example, things people

Gullibility research is an established area, as these things are important for selling products and getting people voted to office. For example, things people believe about the EU will affect their vote on Brexit tomorrow. Here's an egregious example of a widely circulated totally false myth: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp

10dpd 10y ago
A quick keyword search for "cabbage" within EU legislation reveals 1273 documents: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?qid=1466597258008&text=cabbage&scope=EURLEX&type=quick&lang=en http://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?qid=1466597258008&text=...
- morsch 10y ago
  I looked at a few. I thought it was interesting that many of the ones I tried did not contain the word "cabbage", apparently they do some semantic matching which ends up including articles about cauliflower (which is a cabbage), endives and potatoes. Also, the titles are hilarious: Council Regulation (EC) No 969/94 of 26 April 1994 fixing the basic price and the buying-in price for cauliflowers for the period 1 to 31 May 1994 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31994R0969&rid=141 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE... Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1775/93 of 2 July 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2165/92 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific measures for Madeira and the Azores as regards potatoes and endives http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31993R1775&qid=1466597258008&from=EN http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...
  - Gravityloss 10y ago
    Those are quite short? EU is for a large part an agricultural subsidy organization. The paperwork does cause a lot of overhead for the farmers, no doubt.
- knowaveragejoe 10y ago
  And?

10dpd 10y ago

A quick keyword search for "cabbage" within EU legislation reveals 1273 documents: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?qid=1466597258008&text=cabbage&scope=EURLEX&type=quick&lang=en http://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?qid=1466597258008&text=...

morsch 10y ago
I looked at a few. I thought it was interesting that many of the ones I tried did not contain the word "cabbage", apparently they do some semantic matching which ends up including articles about cauliflower (which is a cabbage), endives and potatoes. Also, the titles are hilarious: Council Regulation (EC) No 969/94 of 26 April 1994 fixing the basic price and the buying-in price for cauliflowers for the period 1 to 31 May 1994 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31994R0969&rid=141 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE... Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1775/93 of 2 July 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2165/92 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific measures for Madeira and the Azores as regards potatoes and endives http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31993R1775&qid=1466597258008&from=EN http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...
- Gravityloss 10y ago
  Those are quite short? EU is for a large part an agricultural subsidy organization. The paperwork does cause a lot of overhead for the farmers, no doubt.
knowaveragejoe 10y ago
And?