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 3, 2009
Statistics demonstrate that 'Islam will overwhelm Christendom unless Christians recognize the de ...
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May 3, 2009
Do photographs show a large mountain lion hit by a truck and killed in Arizona?
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May 2, 2009
Is the Library of Congress transferring its entire audio collection to 78 RPM platters?
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May 2, 2009
Message solicits contributions for a statue of President George W. Bush.
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May 1, 2009
Car thieves at the Deerbrook Mall place baskets under cars to lure drivers out of their vehicles?
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May 1, 2009
Resources for information about the swine flu.
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May 1, 2009
Memo issued to soldiers at Fort Campbell requires them to provide information on privately owned ...
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April 30, 2009
President Obama will legalize marijuana if one million people call a designated phone number?
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April 30, 2009
Letter from Sheriff Joe Arpaio rebuffs Rev. Al Sharpton's demands that he resign?
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April 30, 2009
Letter to the 'Wall Steet Journal' responds to a 'Where's the Outrage?' editorial?
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April 29, 2009
The snow, wind, temperature, and moisture required for 'snowrollers' to form make them rare and ...
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April 29, 2009
Message details requirements of the GIVE act?
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April 28, 2009
Two Internet-circulated coupons can be redeemed for free Velveeta and Reynolds Wrap products?
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April 26, 2009
Victoria Stafford: missing child or Internet hoax?
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April 23, 2009
Photographs show a 'hotelicopter,' a helicopter which houses an 18-room hotel?
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April 22, 2009 (Updated: July 15, 2016)
The Gardasil HPV vaccine hasn't been proved to have caused the deaths of 32 women.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 21, 2009
Message details decisions made by President Obama in directing the rescue of Captain Phillips fr ...
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April 21, 2009
A passage from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" supposedly foretold that the economic crisis of 2008-09 ...
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April 19, 2009
Has the Department of Defense cut off sales of spent cartridge cases to U.S. ammunition manufact ...
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