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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May 21, 2013
Hyland's Teething Tablets have been discontinued over reports of their causing "adverse events" ...
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May 21, 2013
Has accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan continued to draw $278,000 in salary while await ...
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May 21, 2013
Does Delta Air Lines prohibit Jewish passengers and Bibles on all their flights due to an allian ...
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May 20, 2013
Did a Marine tasked with holding an umbrella during a rainy presidential news conference commit ...
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May 20, 2013
Rumor: Photograph shows a house painted in protest by its owner after he was barred from display ...
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May 20, 2013
A Texas business provides big game hunters with an opportunity to participate in 'horse hunt adv ...
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May 16, 2013
Rumor: Dr. Leon Eisenberg, the 'father' of ADHD, said just before his death that ADHD 'is a prim ...
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May 16, 2013
Letter from Royal Mail's customer services department asks a local resident to stop pranking pos ...
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May 16, 2013
A Swedish man died after having sex with hornet's nest?
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May 16, 2013
Penelope Eddy provided a kindness for a homeless man who had helped her many years before?
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May 15, 2013
A photograph captures a lion, tiger, and bear who live together in the same enclosure at an anim ...
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May 15, 2013
Rapper Eminem was nearly killed by a fan in New York who stabbed him four times?
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May 14, 2013
Did Congresswoman Michele Bachmann announce she would leave Minnesota if that state legalized ga ...
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May 13, 2013
Video shows a woman drinking beer through her ear?
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May 13, 2013
Warnings of Hartz products harming pets have been shared since at least 2013.
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May 13, 2013
Is a 9-year-old autistic girl named Mikaela Lynch missing from her Clearlake, California, home?
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May 13, 2013
Video shows a woman at a baseball game dumping a drink over her boyfriend's head because he decl ...
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May 13, 2013
Abercrombie & Fitch refuses to make clothes for fat women?
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May 11, 2013
Did Chris Brown pay Ariel Castro's bail?
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May 10, 2013
Stories about submerged crystal pyramids remain popular in paranormal circles.
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