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 18, 2006
Photograph shows USC cheerleader celebrating opponent's Rose Bowl-winning touchdown?
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March 17, 2006
Is the IRS sending out e-mail notices about tax refunds?
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March 16, 2006
Notices purporting to come from the Internal Revenue Service make good phishing bait, for a numb ...
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March 16, 2006
Does a photograph show sunset at the North Pole?
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March 15, 2006
Verse describes the suffering of a three-year-old girl who dies of a beating delivered by her ab ...
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March 14, 2006
Was actor Will Ferrell killed in a paragliding accident.?
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March 13, 2006
Mishap with a tent exposes a couple's sexual activity to fellow campers.
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March 11, 2006
Bride's mix-up results in an inappropriate Bible verse on her wedding cake.
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March 8, 2006 (Updated: Aug. 12, 2022)
The “blondes are going extinct” rumor sprang from a spate of news stories that were aired by maj ...
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March 6, 2006
Many a youngster has fantasized about pulling off pranks that may or may not be effective in pra ...
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March 5, 2006
Is 7-year-old Chad Briody dying of lung cancer and a brain tumor?
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March 5, 2006
Law enforcement group urges boycott of the video game '25 to Life'.
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March 1, 2006
Rumor: Photographs show a pair of black and white fraternal twin girls.
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Feb. 28, 2006
Photographs document a roadside stunt, not a Muslim boy having his arm crushed under a truck as ...
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Feb. 28, 2006
E-mail warns that buying mulch from home improvement stores may spread the Formosan subterranean ...
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Feb. 27, 2006
Were U.S. soldiers refused service by the owner of a Pontiac gas station?
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Feb. 25, 2006
Ben Stein's 2005 commentary about the observance of Christmas circulates every holiday season.
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Feb. 23, 2006
Are AOL and Yahoo proposing to tax businesses for sending spam to their customers?
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Feb. 23, 2006
E-mails urge Americans to buy/not buy Citgo brand gasoline.
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Feb. 13, 2006
Warning about the Invitation/Olympic Torch computer virus that 'burns the whole hard disc C of y ...
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