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
Jan. 17, 2003
Did Colin Powell made a clever quip about Americans' inability to find Iraq on a map?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 17, 2003
Did Colin Powell made a clever quip about Americans' inability to find Iraq on a map?
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Jan. 16, 2003
Does a Russian boy named Sergei need adoptive parents?
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Jan. 16, 2003
Does a Russian boy named Sergei need adoptive parents?
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Jan. 13, 2003
Does a website provide information and equipment for making 'bonsai kittens'?
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Jan. 12, 2003
The story of how a joke becomes a legend.
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Jan. 12, 2003
City boy turns a profit by raffling off dead donkey to country folk?
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Jan. 11, 2003
A 27-year-old pregnant woman named Laci Peterson has been missing from her Modesto, California, ...
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Jan. 10, 2003
Does a single dose of Children's Motrin cause ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding in children?
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Jan. 6, 2003
A humorous essay seeks to describe how taxes work in the context of ten men splitting a dinner c ...
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Jan. 6, 2003
Bill Clinton's questionable activities during the Vietnam-era draft did not make him the 'first ...
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Jan. 3, 2003
Did a child drown after jumping into ocean to see SpongeBob SquarePants?
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Jan. 2, 2003
Was Charles Shaw wine sold so cheaply because airlines could no longer use corkscrews after 9/11?
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Dec. 31, 2002
Sometimes the simplest and most correct answers are the least satisfying.
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Dec. 31, 2002
Is the FBI asking the public's assistance in locating five men who supposedly entered the USA il ...
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Dec. 31, 2002
Did British spy novelist John le Carré author an 'America gone mad' essay?
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Dec. 30, 2002
Did Alka-Seltzer dramatically increase their sales by instructing consumers to use two tablets i ...
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Dec. 26, 2002
Rumor: Pacific Palisades High School placed an unusual message on their school telephone answeri ...
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Dec. 26, 2002
Did 25 Congresswomen stage a walkout during a vote on a resolution to authorize the use of milit ...
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