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 10, 2013
Has President Obama threatened 14 state governors with arrest for forming State Defense Forces?
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May 9, 2013
Are many TV viewers are complaining to A&E about prayer scenes in the program 'Duck Dynasty'?
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May 8, 2013
This quotation from Roman statesman Cicero about balancing the budget comes from a 1965 novel, n ...
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May 8, 2013 (Updated: Aug. 2, 2022)
Did a list of "A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots" entries originate with comedian ...
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May 8, 2013
Charles Ramsey said that the captive women he helped rescue, and not he, should receive a reward?
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May 7, 2013
Is accused bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev going to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery?
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May 7, 2013
An inflammatory statement about race attributed to a National Rifle Association official origina ...
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May 6, 2013
A high school student named Cole Withrow was charged for accidentally leaving an unloaded shotgu ...
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May 6, 2013
Is it possible for a staircase to violate the laws of physics and basic logic by looping back in ...
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May 2, 2013
Has Johnson & Johnson lost their license to sell cosmetics?
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May 2, 2013
Was New York mayor Michael Bloomberg denied a second slice of pizza at an Italian eatery in Broo ...
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May 1, 2013
Does this title rank among the achievements of the long-serving member of the U.S. House of Repr ...
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May 1, 2013
Will U.S. soldiers and chaplains face court-martial for professing Christianity?
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April 30, 2013
Cameron Lyle gave up his collegiate athletic career to donate bone marrow to a young man with le ...
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April 29, 2013
Laura Buxton released a balloon that ended up in the hands of another girl named Laura Buxton wh ...
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April 29, 2013
Is Facebook introducing video-based advertisements to their network?
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April 28, 2013
Spooky tale of mysterious black-eyed children who show up at the homes of unsuspecting residents.
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April 28, 2013
Were 20 members of the Westboro Baptist Church were arrested attempting to protest a memorial se ...
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April 26, 2013
A purported science test from a South Carolina school questioned fourth-graders about dinosaurs ...
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April 25, 2013
Carlos Arredondo lost a son in Iraq and another to suicide?
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