David Emery

David Emery is a San Francisco-based writer with nearly 20 years’ experience debunking rumors, hoaxes, and urban legends, first as a freelancer for About.com (1997-2016), and for snopes.com since July 2016. His varied career has also included stints as a newsroom librarian, staff writer for a television sitcom, and contributing editor of a (pre-Internet) satirical newspaper. He first won recognition in the online universe as an arch commentator on the outer limits of Net culture with Iron Skillet Magazine, lauded by the Houston Chronicle as “a compendium of offbeat views run through the blender of the author’s savage sense of humor … [with] on-target skewerings of strange ideas.”