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
June 21, 2001
Knowing one's accomplice is as essential as knowing one's opponent when it comes to getting away ...
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June 19, 2001
Do the proceeds from a certain U.S. postal stamp help fund breast cancer research?
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June 18, 2001
Did a fatherless child named Robby learn to play the piano before being killed in the Oklahoma C ...
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June 18, 2001
Is TOGO's giving away free sandwiches on June 20?
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June 14, 2001
Old rumor holds that Canada's Hudson's Bay Co. is required to make annual payments of animal pel ...
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June 14, 2001
Was a 7th-grader named Dean Thomson injured in a sledding accident?
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June 14, 2001
"In a bizarre turn, one that underscores the anxiety and paranoia of his last days, Walt made a ...
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June 12, 2001
Rumor: Actress Cindy Williams wrote an op-ed critical of military pay raises.
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June 10, 2001
Did comedian George Carlin author a piece about his being a 'Bad American'?
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June 8, 2001
Are prayers needed for Lauren Renee Pingel, a little girl injured in an automobile accident?
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June 7, 2001
Are 'Citizens Against Breast-Feeding' petitioning Congress to outlaw breast-feeding?
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June 7, 2001
Rumor: A Newfoundland diver snapped an underwater photograph of an enormous iceberg.
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June 6, 2001
Although now fixed in popular culture, the names of some of Santa's reindeer were once subject t ...
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June 6, 2001
Is the poem 'In Flanders Fields' misprinted on the back of the new Canadian $10 bill?
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June 5, 2001
Is the U.S. flag pictured flying over Parliament on Canadian currency?
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June 4, 2001
Another linguistic mystery over the origins of something everyone's heard about but has never ac ...
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June 4, 2001
Did Bonnie and Clyde appear on the back of a U.S. $10 bill?
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May 29, 2001
Did the word 'gringo' come from the song 'Green Grow the Lilacs'?
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May 28, 2001
Did a Canadian man raises an 89-pound, 69-inch mutant cat?
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May 24, 2001
What's the story behind infamous Chung e-mail wherein a young trader brags about his sexual conq ...
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