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
Jan. 18, 2008
Do some hotels not properly wash and sterilize the drinking glasses placed in guest rooms?
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Jan. 18, 2008
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney transported a dog atop his car.
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Jan. 16, 2008
Viral image dating from 2006 purports to show a new Boeing "797" blended-wing airliner.
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Jan. 15, 2008
Do photographs show ice formations in Lake Huron created by waves of water freezing in midair?
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Jan. 15, 2008
E-mail lists new California traffic laws taking effect in 2008.
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Jan. 15, 2008
Does a web site allocate money to autism research and other charities for every video viewed?
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Jan. 15, 2008
Photographs show a garbage truck converted into a camper.
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Jan. 14, 2008
Is Gemma Brown collecting spam and chain emails?
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Jan. 14, 2008
E-mail reproduces an editorial from a Canadian newspaper about U.S. presidential candidates.
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Jan. 11, 2008
Scammers con victims into forwarding their phones to other numbers.
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Jan. 10, 2008
Photographs show an 8'10'', 327-lb. alligator gar caught at Broken Bow Lake in Oklahoma.
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Jan. 10, 2008
Photographs show lifelike sculptures of humans in varying scales created by artist Ron Mueck.
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Jan. 7, 2008
Have the U.S., Canada, and Mexico agreed to form a North American Union?
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Jan. 7, 2008
The son of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee once killed a dog at Boy Scout camp, but the c ...
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Jan. 4, 2008
Yet another anti-immigrant screed chock full of inaccurate and misleading information.
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Jan. 4, 2008
PayPal e-mailed notices stating that they will be providing account information for some users t ...
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Jan. 3, 2008
Does a photograph show a satellite view of the Indian Ocean tsunami?
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Dec. 29, 2007
Do photographs show Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox Arquette at the christening of the latter ...
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Dec. 28, 2007
Web site offers to buy unwanted cats and dogs to re-sell to animal testing services.
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Dec. 20, 2007
E-mail claims that several homicides in the Florida/Georgia area are all the work of a single se ...
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