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).
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 15, 2020
"We all lose when we allow irrational fear, fueled in part by prime-time ratings and political e ...
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May 15, 2020
Imagine scooting around in something like a cross between the Segway and the Smart car.
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May 14, 2020
The president has been accused of forgetting the people behind the coronavirus case numbers.
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May 14, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci has led the NIAID for more than three decades, advising five U.S. presidents o ...
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May 13, 2020
It's difficult to believe that bin Laden took time to pop over to New York to attend black tie a ...
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May 13, 2020
A false Republican talking point was encapsulated in a fake tweet attributed to President Donald ...
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May 13, 2020
Another fake headline apparently designed to generate real outrage.
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May 13, 2020
Tactics and key policy decisions were laid out in a 69-page National Security Council playbook o ...
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May 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused prices for meat and proteins to climb across the board.
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May 12, 2020
Sometimes it is all too easy for us to consider deaths as a mere abstraction or statistic — as s ...
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May 12, 2020
Involuntary measures to control disease have a long history in North America.
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May 11, 2020
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush’s $100 billion grant program proposed in the H.R. 6666 TRACE bill has been ...
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May 11, 2020
At times it seems as if "communism" has become a general term to describe any undesirable action ...
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May 10, 2020
Poultry shows are all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
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May 8, 2020
The factually-challenged film “Plandemic” is a social media hit with groups such as anti-vaxxers ...
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May 8, 2020
Coincidences that occur through the repetition of events are not necessarily the same thing as " ...
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May 6, 2020
During an ABC News interview, the president spoke about reopening the U.S. and what he'd say to ...
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May 5, 2020
Santee, California, has been associated with white supremacist activity for years, earning the c ...
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May 5, 2020
Just how much faith do you place in an unbelievable anecdote told by a wag known as "Wild Bill"?
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May 5, 2020
A sprawling conspiracy theory holds that numerous individuals and organizations schemed to promo ...
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