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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Sept. 9, 2013
Was the '2 Millions Bikers to DC' group denied a 'no-stop' permit for a Washington ride-through ...
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Sept. 9, 2013
Text reproduces an open letter to Americans from Russian president Vladimir Putin?
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Sept. 9, 2013
A purported photograph of a Christian woman raped and murdered by Muslims in Syria is actually a ...
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Sept. 5, 2013
A spoof CBC report on how competition impacts youth was mistaken by many viewers for a genuine n ...
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Sept. 4, 2013
A 2-year-old girl named Kaydance Bearden was kidnapped from her Arkansas home?
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Sept. 3, 2013
Actor Steve Buscemi was once a firefighter and assisted the FDNY after the 9/11 attacks.
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Sept. 3, 2013
CVS pharmacy had an issue with an employee wearing ties bearing religious symbolism at one of th ...
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Aug. 29, 2013
Was a spoof of terrorist threat levels written by English comic John Cleese?
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Aug. 27, 2013
An account describing the horrific results of a 'Russian Sleep Experiment' from the late 1940s ...
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Aug. 27, 2013
A chart purportedly showing radioactive water seeping into the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear ...
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Aug. 27, 2013
What's the meaning of those 'Attention service desk, 201' announcements heard in Vons and Safewa ...
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Aug. 27, 2013
Does a provision of Obamacare allow federal agents to conduct forced home inspections?
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Aug. 26, 2013
Video clip shows a U.S. Representative putting the 'Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Bill' up for ...
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Aug. 22, 2013
Did a dog die after picking up a poisoned Nerf football in a dog park?
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Aug. 22, 2013
Is Arizona implementing a mandatory school program to help homosexual children become straight?
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Aug. 21, 2013
The list of items which doctors have documented removing from urethras and bladders is long and ...
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Aug. 21, 2013
Are teenagers boiling shampoo and inhaling the fumes to get high?
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Aug. 20, 2013
Document announces the creation of a United Nations 'Civilian Weapons Confiscation Study Group.'
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Aug. 18, 2013
Forever 21 demoted its employees to part-time status 'to retaliate against Obamacare'?
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Aug. 15, 2013
An angel disguised as a priest saved a critically injured girl, then vanished.
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