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
May 10, 2004
Rats are the furtive invaders who hide in the dark, dank spaces of our buildings and towns
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May 7, 2004
Does a photograph show a U.S. serviceman wearing a 'DOING THE WORK OF' patch?
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May 7, 2004
Does a 1944 article describes Republican calls for U.S. forces to be withdrawn from Europe?
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May 6, 2004
Do Arab states consistently vote against the U.S. in the United Nations?
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May 3, 2004
Does a photograph show President Bush jogging with a serviceman who lost a leg in Afghanistan?
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April 27, 2004
Did guitarist Ron Wood lose a chance to join the Rolling Stones in 1969?
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April 27, 2004
Message from National Guardsman chroncles U.S. accomplishments in rebuilding Iraq.
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April 26, 2004
How Columbia Records mistakenly released a Byrds album without a title due to a miscommunication.
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April 21, 2004
Did PETA place bricks with hidden messages at baseball parks?
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April 21, 2004
Will Long John Silver's restaurants be giving away free Giant Shrimp on 10 May 2004?
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April 15, 2004
Is Burger King behind a 'subservient chicken' Internet promotion?
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April 15, 2004
Does a photograph show a U.S. Marine posing with Iraqi kids holding a provocative sign?
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April 11, 2004
Urban myths board game falls for joke about Blackbeard's using a nursery rhyme to recruit pirates.
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April 11, 2004
Rumor: The government is planning to track the homeless by implanting them with RFID chips.
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April 7, 2004
Does a photograph show camel spiders found in Iraq?
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April 5, 2004
A judge supposedly told a non-religious, holiday-seeking plaintiff that atheists already have th ...
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April 1, 2004
An emailed item supposedly shows five homes owned by U.S. senator John Kerry and worth many mill ...
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