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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Oct. 22, 2014
An anthropologist (not a doctor) penned a non-peer reviewed piece arguing that flu vaccination b ...
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Oct. 22, 2014
Did residents of a Florida town fly 500 American flags after a hardware store there was prohibit ...
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Oct. 22, 2014
Has President Obama quietly ordered 34 million blank green cards ahead of a post-election immigr ...
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Oct. 21, 2014
Can Muslim nurses working in the UK refuse to wash their hands?
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Oct. 21, 2014
A 26-year-old Yale Law School graduate then known by her maiden name of Hillary Rodham worked on ...
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Oct. 21, 2014
T-shirt company FCKH8 video 'f-bombs for feminism' features little girls using four-letter words.
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Oct. 21, 2014
Has a study linked eating grits with increased chances of fathering a gay child?
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Oct. 21, 2014
Will drinking or injecting bleach protect you against Ebola?
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Oct. 21, 2014
Rumor: Nabisco is producing Red Velet Oreos for Valentine's Day 2015.
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Oct. 21, 2014
DO photographs show Renee Zellweger with a drastically different look?
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Oct. 21, 2014
Photograph purportedly shows a truck in Texas bearing an anti-Obama decal.
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Oct. 21, 2014
Did President Obama throw a tantrum and tell senior Pentagon officials 'don't you dare paint all ...
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Oct. 21, 2014
Have scientists discovered a vast reef of floating condoms in the Pacific Ocean?
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Oct. 20, 2014
A real human corpse reportedly went undiscovered at a Halloween haunted house attraction for two ...
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Oct. 20, 2014
Have police in London arrested and identified notorious graffiti artist Banksy?
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Oct. 20, 2014
Are Las Vegas casino owners lobbying to legalize dogfighting?
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Oct. 20, 2014
Did 17 Texas kindergarteners contract Ebola from a Liberian exchange student?
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Oct. 20, 2014
Was semen found in Starbucks drinks and storerooms?
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Oct. 20, 2014
Are puppy-sized spiders roaming the South American rainforest?
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Oct. 20, 2014
Was a couple hospitalized when their getting romantic in the ocean resulted in an unbreakable su ...
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