David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
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July 15, 2014
Photographs show multi-colored 'rainbow grapes.'
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July 13, 2014
Are Canadian police ticketing motorists for parking their cars with the windows down?
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July 10, 2014
E-mail phishing scam poses as overdue notifications for E-Z Pass bills.
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July 9, 2014
Has Costco pulled copies of Dinesh D'Souza's book 'America: Imagine a World Without Her' from th ...
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July 8, 2014
Smithfield Foods was sold to a Chinese company in 2013, but China won't be slaughtering and proc ...
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July 7, 2014
Some dubious websites published misleading summaries of a single study's findings.
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July 7, 2014
Did a man begin receiving messages from his girlfriend via Facebook more than a year after she d ...
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July 7, 2014
A Marine named Shawn Vernon seeks help in locating a box of lost shirts.
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July 7, 2014
Are U.S. schools requiring children to be implanted with RFID chips in an effort to curb gun vio ...
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July 6, 2014
Reports of the discovery by police of multiple plastic-wrapped bodies in the Ohio River are fake ...
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July 5, 2014
Did a Hobby Lobby store manager execute a gay employee by stoning?
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July 4, 2014
Rumor: The state of New York is requiring residents to take their lawn mowers for annual safety ...
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July 1, 2014
An image supposedly pictures a racially contradictory sign imploring that everyone be treated eq ...
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July 1, 2014
Has President Obama proclaimed August 2014 to be 'International Muslim Awareness Month'?
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June 30, 2014
A collection of distinctly Canadian urban legends.
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June 30, 2014
Pig offal is big business.
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June 26, 2014
Did Oprah Winfrey post bail for 'sexy felon' Jeremy Meeks?
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June 25, 2014
Scam bait video purportedly shows the deleterious results of using Head and Shoulders shampoo.
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June 25, 2014
A screen shot of a televised World Cup match showing team country codes spelling out a racial pe ...
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June 24, 2014
Was a 3-year-old girl ordered to leave a KFC outlet because her facial injuries were disturbing ...
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