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 4, 2020
A common tale expresses the thought that a dictator can do anything he wants to "the people," so ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 3, 2020
The COVID-19 "death rate" reported by the CDC goes up with the passage of time, and it has not b ...
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May 3, 2020
Tara Reade, who worked as an assistant helping manage interns for Biden's Senate office in 1993, ...
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April 27, 2020
States may in fact use police powers to protect the health, safety, and welfare of persons withi ...
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April 27, 2020
Journalism may be a noble profession, but reporters aren't awarded "noble prizes."
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April 26, 2020
Pelosi did take part in a Congressional delegation to China in November -- but in 2015, not 2019.
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April 25, 2020
Unconfirmed rumors claim North Korea's 'Supreme Leader' Kim Jong-un has died, or is near death w ...
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April 24, 2020
Demonstrators in many different U.S. cities protested that COVID-19 social-distancing restrictio ...
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April 23, 2020
Sometimes a bat is just a bat — even in American Samoa.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 23, 2020
Demonstrators in many different U.S. cities protested that COVID-19 social-distancing restrictio ...
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April 23, 2020
Gowdy: "We have enough going on in our country right now without propagating misinformation."
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April 23, 2020
A "quarantine" separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious d ...
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April 22, 2020
Even though a Staten Island rally didn’t come to fruition, similar anti-social distancing protes ...
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April 22, 2020
Dan Patrick called for social-distancing measures to be eased for his state amid the coronavirus ...
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April 21, 2020
Both the U. S. House and Senate extended their recesses until May 4 due to the dangers of corona ...
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April 21, 2020
The protest movement against coronavirus restrictions has highlighted a variety of messages, som ...
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April 20, 2020
Jacksonville-area journalists were accused of lying to the public about photographs of the Jacks ...
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April 20, 2020
The widespread presence of laboring children was a common sight in the U.S. at the turn of the 2 ...
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April 19, 2020
Or as former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld might ask, "Do we know what the unknowns are"?
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April 16, 2020
Some mistakes are harder to erase.
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