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	\| Urban Legends Lure Christian Believers -- Tuesday, March 30 2004 @ 07:45 PM EST
		Mikkelson notes that according to most reliable polls, fully 75% of Americans identify themselves as Christians.
		Mikkelson also speculates that it would be unlikely that someone would change his personal beliefs about God simply on the basis of a spontaneous, limited e-mail poll.
		Authors David and Barbara Mikkelson point out that the report makes misstatements of fact, logical mistakes, misidentifications of technology and industry, grammatical mistakes, and false analysis of terms and technology.
	www.answers.org /featured/z20040328194539706.html (609 words)

	OJR article: For Snopes.com, Debunking the Bambi Hoax Was All in a Day's Work
		Snopes.com is the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995.
		They've appeared on CNN and various TV shows, but remain relatively low key and out of the spotlight, despite pop culture interest in their subject matter (there have been two "Urban Legends" movies and a TV show; none affiliated with them).
		Barbara had the foresight to get that up by the end of the day.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/glaser/1059692646.php (1998 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| The rumor busters
		At Snopes.com, Barbara and David Mikkelson debunk conspiracies and quash urban legends.
		Barbara and David met on the Net in a Usenet discussion group about urban legends, and have been publishing their truth-serum site for six years.
		Barbara told us what the lies, hoaxes and urban legends born of the terrorist attacks tell us about the terror in our heads.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/10/31/snopes/index.html (679 words)

	eLink-In Focus-Issue 47
		Barbara Mikkelson: "My two favorites are Hotel Soaps and A Dog Named Sex, but the one that seems to be our readers' favorite is Good Luck, Mr.
		Barbara Mikkelson: "It's a long and convoluted story and probably not very interesting...'Snopes' was David's first "nom de Net." Even though email was still pretty new when he chose it, he knew that there would be a million Davids online."
		Barbara Mikkelson: "Urban legends contribute to a climate of fear where we're asked to see everything as a threat.
	www.earthlink.net /elink/issue47/focus.html (1531 words)

	Is the threat of CODEX simply an "Urban Legend"?
		Mikkelson, on the other hand, is clearly an apologist for the Pharma Cartel--she is openly calling for the repeal of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act and her whole orientation is to obfuscate this all too VALID issue:
		Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes never bothered to communicate with either Durbin or Davis offices (sponsors of S.722, and HR 3377) before making this mindless statement.
		Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes has clearly bought the PARTY LINE of people who seek to REPEAL the Dietary supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.
	www.theomnivore.com /IAHF_vs_Snopes_Feb_2005.html (5952 words)

	WSJ Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Mikkelsons investigate and then categorize hoaxes and legends, and footnote their sources.
		One news report, Mikkelson said, put a woman at the rescue scene, dressed in medical scrubs, claiming to have gotten a cell phone call from her husband, trapped in the rubble.
		Mikkelson said there is one rumor (hoax, legend) that has not cropped up yet, but it surely will soon.
	www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/special/5830.html (914 words)

	OJR Features: Debunking Urban Legends
		exploding toilet seats, Mikkelson and her husband, David, have been painstakingly debunking e-mail-transmitted urban legends -- and catching the news organizations that fall for them -- since early 1995.
		From their home in Agoura, Calif., the Mikkelsons use what Barbara calls their "encyclopedic minds," with the help of their massive readership (nearly 8 million page impressions a month, 6,000 subscribers), to track the latest shaggy dog story making the rounds.
		Barbara, 39, is a housewife, and spends most of her waking hours on it.
	mattwelch.com /OJRsave/OJRsave/CorrectorSnopes.htm (678 words)

	Debunking Rumors
		That's because they are the hoaxes and rumors born from this tragedy.
		Barbara Mikkelson, who investigates urban legends and myths on her website Snopes.com, says, “This is part of how people respond to a time of crisis.”
		Barbara says of the fake photo of the accidental tourist that spread like wildfire on the Internet, “The emotional impact that it caused in the people that received the photo was so great that it overwhelmed common sense.”
	extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/10_01/10_03d.html (296 words)

	The God Who Wasn't There - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sam Harris is a researcher into the neurology of religious belief, and author of The End of Faith.
		Barbara Mikkelson and David P. Mikkelson are the founders of the Urban Legends Reference Pages, widely considered to be the definitive source on the truth or falsehood of urban legends.
		Robert M. Price is Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_God_Who_Wasn't_There (788 words)

	Dateline: Urban Legends - 2002-03-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Barbara Mikkelson said urban legends usually thrive in situations of heightened anxiety.
		Barbara Mikkelson noted that urban legends are built on a veneer of truth and that is what makes them credible.
		Barbara Mikkelson says that right after September 11, an urban legend began circulating which said that Coca-Cola's logo was designed in such a way that a mirror image would produce an anti-Islamic message.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-03/a-2002-03-01-16-Dateline.cfm (1160 words)

	Sleepless in Midland: Snopes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		She described how she does the work, for example she explained the process of debunking the belief that colonies of alligators were living in the sewers of New York.
		Mikkelson searched through microfilm of the New York Times from 1903 to 1993 for alligator stories on the assumption that if the legend were true then there should have been many articles about sightings.
		Mikkelson pointed out in the interview that, with the exception of Richard Nixon, the IQs of the presidents are simply not known, and the fake report even got Nixon's IQ wrong.
	sleepless.blogs.com /george/2003/12/snopescom.html (500 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		David and Barbara Mikkelson founded snopes.com and they have become experts at separating the bogus from the bona fide.
		BARBARA MIKKELSON: One of the longest running right now is the Nigerian scam.
		Barbara and David, we appreciate you getting up early on west coast to join us this morning.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0405/02/sm.05.html (1741 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| tech news Web site debunks WTC myths
		According to the Mikkelsons, of Agoura Hills, California, the rumours have been pouring in since September 11, and haven't stopped since.
		According to the Mikkelsons, getting an email from someone telling you about some new rumour is the modern equivalent of tales told around the campfire - people like to hear scary stories.
		According to the Mikkelsons, this hoax is an expression of hope, as "it celebrates the miraculous survival of an otherwise doomed man and thus by implication imparts hope that others too will have been found to have lived through the destruction.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /technews/809493.htm (900 words)

	Debunking Financial Urban Myths
		Every now and then you read about a retiree snookered in a Nigerian bank scam or some nitwit marched off to jail, still insisting the income tax is illegal, and you just shake your head and wonder who could believe that guff.
		Mikkelson spends a lot of time getting to the bottom of financial tall tales that she encounters.
		Mikkelson rejoiced when she actually discovered such a treasure during her honeymoon -- and found out a few hours later that her new husband was pretending to be God.
	www.voternewsnetwork.com /VNN/newsletters/november305.html (1438 words)

	ATM urban legends rare, wacky \| ATM Marketplace News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It tends to indicate people don't fear this particular aspect of technology," said Barbara Mikkelson, an urban legend enthusiast who, along with her husband, David, maintains an exhaustive collection of the sometimes twisted, never-quite-true tales at snopes.com.
		While Mikkelson said that many legends are popular because "they confirm a deeply held world view" such as the uncaring nature of big business, she doesn't think that's the case with this particular scary story.
		Mikkelson said the real culprit is often the magnetic clasp found on many eelskin wallets.
	www.atmmarketplace.com /news_story_19672.htm (902 words)

	Urban Myths :: Web site separates fact from urban legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		That's when Levine went to David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have been running Snopes.com, their urban legends reference pages site, as a hobby for seven years.
		The Mikkelsons named their site for the irredeemably bad family that appears in the works of William Faulkner, Barbara Mikkelson said.
		Barbara has been known to research a "legend" for two weeks before posting her findings at the site, like the time she rifled through New York Times archives dating back to 1912 to find out if a colony of sickly alligators was living in city sewers.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /00000763-.html (689 words)

	Quote Details: Barbara Mikkelson: Beware the pull on... - The Quotations Page
		Quote Details: Barbara Mikkelson: Beware the pull on...
		Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
		Log in using the form to the left, or register as a new user.
	www.quotationspage.com /quote/31883.html (73 words)

	Customer Testimonials - Mikkelson Realty and Auctioneers - Alexandria Minnesota
		Many, many positive comments were made to us about you and your crew.
		Mikkelson Auction Service was "The very best - reliable and prompt." They were "very friendly and cooperative.
		We were able to surpass our goal and raised over $13,000.
	www.mikkelsonauction.com /Testimonials.cfm (271 words)

	Jay Barnes
		David Mikkelson is very well known in many circles for being a tool.
		Barbara “Soon To Be Divorcing Your Sorry Ass” Mikkelson
		One time I asked her for a soda and she said we didn’t have any left, but later on I checked and we did, in fact, have soda.
	bigmixup.com /category/content (291 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: (Glossary)
		When David Mikkelson, creator of snopes.com, first came onto the Internet in the late 1980s, he worried even back in those relatively uncrowded days that no one would remember yet another David.
		He was thus inspired to adopt a nom-de-Net, selecting one that honored those fictional Faulknerian characters, and began signing his newsgroups posts as "snopes."
		Either term can be employed to describe the oddball "middle names" Barbara Mikkelson uses in signing her articles.
	www.snopes.com /info/glossary.asp (1150 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bill Cosby on Blaming White People
		While the relative merit of Bill Cosby's pronouncements is in dispute, what is not is the sincerity of the man who made them.
		Barbara "sag your pants, sag your chances, says Cos" Mikkelson
		This material may not be reproduced without permission.
	www.snopes.com /politics/soapbox/cosby.asp (1070 words)

	Debunking the Clinton "Body Count"
		Over the years, many of you have written us about the so-called "Clinton Body Count" posted to Web pages and circulated by e-mail.
		Well, don't believe the hype -- instead, click here to read Barbara Mikkelson's thoroughly researched and outstanding debunking of this right-wing "urban myth." Bookmark it for future reference.
		Then, when some wingnut tries to claim that Bill Clinton is some sort of serial killer, send 'em to Ms.
	www.americanpolitics.com /101598BodyCount.html (131 words)

	Barbara Mikkelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Co-founder, with David Mikkelson, of the Urban Legends Reference Pages...
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