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 31, 2004
Rumor holds that a secret flight whisked prominent Saudis and Osama bin Laden's relatives out of ...
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March 30, 2004
Does Senator John Kerry's wife own Heinz, a company that outsources much of its work abroad?
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March 28, 2004
Does a photograph show a man impaled by a wooden post.?
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March 24, 2004
Is Mondex planning to replace money with biochips embedded in people's heads and hands?
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March 18, 2004
Did author Kurt Vonnegut pen a opinion piece titled 'Cold Turkey'?
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March 18, 2004
Did 911 days separate the 9/11 attacks and the Madrid train bombings?
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March 17, 2004
Did an artist secretly paint a 60-foot-high image of a naked woman above a tunnel in Malibu Cany ...
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March 17, 2004
Photographs show utility workers discovering a large alligator and a nest of snakes?
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March 15, 2004
Is Steven Spielberg is planning to direct a film about the Crusades?
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March 15, 2004
Did journalist Geraldo Rivera comment that 'reporters don't report buildings that don't burn'?
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March 13, 2004
A survey of television characters with missing names.
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March 12, 2004
Did President Bush pay for the funeral of a 6-year-old boy who drowned near his ranch?
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March 9, 2004
'Dear Abby' falls for a letter taken from an episode of 'The Simpsons'?
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March 1, 2004
Is eBay requesting that users update their account information?
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Feb. 28, 2004
Warning claims parking lot carjackers are placing flyers or $100 bills on the windows of cars, t ...
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Feb. 28, 2004
Churchgoer describes encounter with President Bush at St. John's Church.
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