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
Nov. 2, 2005
Police car video records a DUI stop being subjected to some wacky sobriety tests.
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Oct. 29, 2005
The Social Security system has been subject to debate for many decades.
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Oct. 24, 2005
Video clip shows bungee jumper whose head is bitten off by a crocodile?
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Oct. 24, 2005
Video clip shows a hapless bungee jumper get his head bitten off by a crocodile.
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Oct. 24, 2005
Illustrations show a proposed Grand Canyon skywalk.
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Oct. 19, 2005
Are fisherman on Réunion Island employing live dogs as bait for shark-fishing?
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Oct. 17, 2005
Sometimes rumors confuse two businesses with similar names.
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Oct. 14, 2005
Advice columnist answers a letter from a reader concerned about her godson 's interest in 'camel ...
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Oct. 13, 2005
Not one of the better schemes for those who need cash in a hurry.
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Oct. 13, 2005
Video news report details the finding of the fossilized remains of a giant creature in southern ...
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Oct. 12, 2005
Does a photograph show a water-channel bridge in Germany?
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Oct. 11, 2005
Has a lesbian mother scheduled her adopted baby boy for sex change surgery?
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Oct. 10, 2005
Initial attempts to sell Coca-Cola in bottled form date all the way to the 1880s.
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Oct. 6, 2005
Photograph shows a veteran wearing a 'bullshit protector' flap during a speech by Barack Obama?
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Oct. 5, 2005
Does a photograph show a snake that burst trying to eat an alligator.?
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Oct. 4, 2005
Crude 'funny name' appears on Hurricane Katrina survivor list.
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Oct. 3, 2005
E-mail reproduces Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's editorial critical of New Orleans blacks and their ' ...
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Oct. 2, 2005
Does a photograph show a panoramic view of a long, tall bridge?
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Sept. 30, 2005 (Updated: Aug. 17, 2022)
During WWII the Germans built wooden airplanes and sometimes complete airfields to keep the Alli ...
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Sept. 29, 2005
Photograph shows Texas A&M bookstore windows boarded up from the wrong side in advance of Hurric ...
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