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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April 28, 2011
President Obama told U.S. consumers that they should 'get used to' higher gas prices and 'trade ...
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April 26, 2011
Dr. Walter Williams penned an opinion piece entitled 'No Matter What'?
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April 18, 2011
Casey Nicole Mueller: missing child or Internet hoax?
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April 17, 2011
Claims that lemons "kill cancer cells" and are "10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy" are uns ...
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April 11, 2011
Prayers are requested for Tony Mullis, a 20-year-old soldier who lost his legs while serving in ...
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April 10, 2011
Photographs show a 'Thank you for freedom' message plowed into a field near Offutt AFB?
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April 4, 2011
Opinion piece by London 'Daily Telegraph' editor criticizes President Obama's handling of foreig ...
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April 2, 2011
FOX News poll asks whether the 'American flag should be banned in America.'
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March 31, 2011
This advice runs contrary to all accepted knowledge about how to treat burns and thus should not ...
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March 29, 2011
Photograph shows a mosque in Japan which remained standing after the March 2011 earthquake and t ...
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March 28, 2011
Macy's offers a 'foreigner's discount' every day but a military discount only 'a couple of days ...
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March 22, 2011
A touching photograph has nothing to do with Japan, an earthquake, or a policeman.
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March 22, 2011
Photograph shows a giraffe climbing a tall tree?
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March 22, 2011
Is Abercrombie & Fitch is offering 'nigger brown' pants for sale?
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March 21, 2011
Message advocates a one-month boycott of Chinese-made goods.
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March 19, 2011
The use of a thyroid guard may not necessarily be appropriate in all x-ray situations.
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March 15, 2011
An article that extols the purported medical virtues of honey and cinnamon exaggerates their ben ...
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March 14, 2011
Rumor: Map issued by Australian Radiation Services shows the expected path of nuclear fallout fr ...
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March 14, 2011
Did actress Natalie Portman make a $50 million donation to a hospital in Israel?
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March 10, 2011
Has actor Charlie Sheen died of a heart attack?
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