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
March 27, 2007
Photograph shows police cruiser crushed between two trucks.
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March 25, 2007
Did a man starve to death because he refused to leave his computer to eat?
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March 20, 2007
Did a medical study determine that working with 'stupid people' is 'one of the deadliest forms o ...
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March 19, 2007
Photograph shows elk traversing a wildlife overpass in Banff, Alberta.
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March 19, 2007
E-mail from Army chaplain decries handling of Walter Reed Medical Center issue.
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March 18, 2007
Photograph shows a 2000-horsepower drug-smuggling boat bearing eight outboard motors.
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March 18, 2007
Menu Foods has recalled some of its pet food after dogs and cats suffered kidney failure.
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March 18, 2007
Did an argument over a San Diego-based message board turn deadly?
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March 15, 2007
Did comedian Sinbad die of a heart attack?
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March 15, 2007
Missing Georgia girl: Jewel Strong.
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March 12, 2007
An 1863 statement by Robert E. Lee expressed disdain for newspaper criticism of his military lea ...
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March 11, 2007
Photographs show a damaged jet engine repaired with seatbelts during a refueling stop?
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March 7, 2007
Can users can receive free laptop computers from Ericsson for forwarding an e-mail message to fr ...
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March 6, 2007
Seventh Generation will donate a box of sanitary products to a women's shelter for every user wh ...
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March 5, 2007
Pouring Coca-Cola onto a piece of raw pork will not cause worms to come crawling out of the meat.
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March 4, 2007
How accurate is collection of controversial statements reportedly made by Hillary Clinton?
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Feb. 27, 2007
Does Al Gore's home consume twenty times as much energy as the average American house?
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Feb. 25, 2007
Fauxtography: Photographs purportedly show a brown bear that was electrocuted when it chewed thr ...
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Feb. 25, 2007
Photographs show a mountain lion on the patio deck of a home.
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