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).
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March 28, 2021
Controversy sometimes keeps episodes of a popular series off TV for years at a time, if not inde ...
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March 20, 2021
The answer to the trivia question "Whom did Babe Ruth replace as the Yankees' right fielder?" is ...
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March 12, 2021
At the very least, it should be several times faster than a 4G horse.
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March 9, 2021
A flux capacitor was the key component of Dr. Emmett Brown's DeLorean time machine in "Back to t ...
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March 7, 2021
The lesson of the "Mystery of the Man from Taured" is that one should not attribute to extra-dim ...
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Feb. 26, 2021
If its services help deliver misinformation to your home, what responsibility does Comcast have ...
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Feb. 25, 2021
"Having a staph infection [from wearing a face mask] is a pretty rare occurrence, and it usually ...
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Feb. 25, 2021
Mr. Potato Head will no longer be a mister, its maker has announced. Or has it?
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Feb. 22, 2021
"Big mistake. Big. Huge," Roberts' character famously declared in "Pretty Woman."
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Feb. 18, 2021
Thirty-four of the 100 U.S. Senate seats will be contested on Nov. 8, 2022.
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Feb. 17, 2021
The word for a sailor's work song is pronounced SHAN-tee, but how you choose to spell it is up t ...
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Feb. 16, 2021
What does a 1942 book have to tell us about a 21st century pandemic? Nothing.
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Feb. 15, 2021
Traffickers are too smart to try to snatch unwitting victims from grocery store parking lots and ...
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Feb. 10, 2021
The Disney+ star was accused of amplifying conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic messages.
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Feb. 9, 2021
Fortunately, the nuclear football did not yet exist in the 1920s.
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Feb. 8, 2021
The VP supposedly said she does not care about the Constitution and will use federal law enforce ...
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Feb. 4, 2021
"Cancel culture" may have gone too far when it extends to nonexistent fast food items.
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Feb. 4, 2021
"The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election ...
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Feb. 2, 2021
Holocaust deaths encompassed two-thirds of European Jewry, and one-third of all world Jewry.
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Jan. 26, 2021
Never mind the meth labs. The real menace plaguing hotel operators is in-room citrus peelers.
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