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 2, 2003
Suzanne Cramsey seeks assistance to treat her rare spider bite.
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May 1, 2003
'I sincerely hope that this is a hoax of some type because I would hate to think a Cadet Fourth ...
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April 30, 2003
Will writing 'Fast. Neat. Average.' on a piece of paper get you invited up to visit an airliner' ...
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April 28, 2003
Urban legends TV show falls for joke about Blackbeard's using a nursery rhyme to recruit fellow ...
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April 24, 2003
Captioning glitch on news program transforms 'enlarged prostate' into something more exciting?
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April 22, 2003
Technical glitch on CNN web site revealed obituaries for several famous but not-yet-dead people?
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April 22, 2003
TV news program runs fictitious explanation of tiger and piglet photographs.
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April 22, 2003
Did comedian Robin Williams come up with a plan for how the U.S. should handle foreign affairs?
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April 21, 2003
Newspaper reporters continue to fall for old funny name gags.
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April 21, 2003
Can you buy penguins on-line through the penguinwarehouse.com web site?
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April 21, 2003
Did commentator Andy Rooney deliver a 'the French have not earned the right to protest against t ...
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April 21, 2003
Pilot of commercial airliner makes announcement that flight is carrying body of Howard Johnson, ...
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April 20, 2003
A supposed transcript of the late '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney's explaining his politica ...
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April 20, 2003
Former Monty Python member John Cleese did not pen a satirical piece announcing the revocation o ...
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April 14, 2003
Red Lobster restaurant refuses to donate gift certificate to POW's family?
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April 11, 2003
Sandstorm in Iraq reveals location of thousands of mines to U.S. troops?
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April 9, 2003
Did French's mustard note their only similarity to the French is that they're both yellow?
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April 6, 2003
Can you make up to $75 per hour processing refunds for FedEx and UPS?
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