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
July 11, 2005
Paramedic advocates cell phone store emergency contact information in their address books?
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July 9, 2005
Resident writes to newspaper to complain about fly-by of jets headed for a fallen serviceman's m ...
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July 8, 2005
Does a photograph show a 50-lb. rattlesnake caught in Clay County, West Virginia?
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July 7, 2005
Does a photograph show the winner of a 'World's Ugliest Dog' contest?
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July 1, 2005
Does a photograph show an emaciated sunbathing beachgoer?
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June 29, 2005
Did cartoonist Charles Schulz design a quiz to demonstrate the importance of people who care abo ...
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June 27, 2005
A popular essay outlines the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, but many o ...
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June 23, 2005
Will wearing red on Fridays show support for U.S. troops overseas?
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June 22, 2005
Farmer expresses dissatisfaction with crop prices by carving a message in his grain field.
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June 20, 2005
Law firm secretary sends caustic reply to senior associate's e-mail request for a £4 cleaning bi ...
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June 17, 2005
Would legislation currently under consideration substantially cut federal funding of the Corpora ...
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June 15, 2005
A former Colorado governor delivered a speech on the destructive effects of multiculturalism on ...
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June 13, 2005
Has Vicky Field's son, Chad Snowden, been shot in the head in Iraq?
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June 11, 2005
Rumor: Photographs show weather and flight charts displaying phallic shapes.
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June 11, 2005
An issue of 'Parents' magazine displaying unfortunate cover placement is just an illustrative mo ...
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June 7, 2005
A photograph capturing a KKK member being treated by an all-black emergency room staff was part ...
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June 2, 2005
Is Subway ending its Sub Club promotion due to the counterfeiting of stamps?
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May 31, 2005
Did the State of Idaho pass a resolution praising Napoleon Dynamite?
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May 30, 2005
Will pressing a sequences of keys on your cell phone produce a serial number?
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