Alex Kasprak
Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, Motherboard, New Scientist, and other venues. Prior to joining Snopes, he was a staff science writer at BuzzFeed and a science communicator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has master's degrees in geological sciences from Brown University and in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. Kasprak has been with Snopes since 2016 and has served as senior writer since 2019.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 3, 2023
A couple of things seem off here.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 3, 2023
Scientific evidence points to a natural origin. The FBI and DOE, we now know, disagree with that ...
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March 1, 2023
"Venice police have already received numerous complaints … of bathers parading … in bathing suit ...
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Feb. 28, 2023
"One of the things I'm known for is my breaking news tweets," the originator of this claim said ...
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Feb. 28, 2023
The product apparently came with a pack of bubble gum cigarettes.
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Feb. 24, 2023
A change to the Spanish criminal code was intended to protect animals from abuse. Did it decrimi ...
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Feb. 23, 2023
The group claimed to be acting on "behalf of the preservation of the human race."
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Feb. 23, 2023
The plane reportedly was departing from Little Rock, Arkansas, on Feb. 22, 2023.
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Feb. 23, 2023
John Alite, a former hitman for the Gambino crime family, appeared to have been photographed wit ...
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Feb. 22, 2023
In the world of seahorse relationships, males are the ones that carry fertilized eggs, in a pouc ...
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Feb. 22, 2023
According to decades of lore, federal marijuana expert James Munch testified in court that two p ...
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Feb. 21, 2023 (Updated: Feb. 22, 2023)
It is unlikely the two creatures inhabiting this photo lived in the same century.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 21, 2023
That's the message some close to Putin's inner circle were pushing, at least.
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Feb. 20, 2023
This would certainly be a unique use of the U.S. Marines.
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Feb. 17, 2023
The GOP blames the media and Biden for ignoring East Palestine. They weren't talking about it ei ...
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Feb. 16, 2023
An image of the purported echinoderm periodically goes viral on social media.
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Feb. 14, 2023
The site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and subsequent chemical release is within ...
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Feb. 14, 2023
Numerous videos of dead fish in a brook described as being near the Ohio train derailment and ch ...
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Feb. 14, 2023
The claim, unlike the Corvair, has been in wide circulation since at least 2014.
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Feb. 10, 2023
Seymour Hersh presents factual background material, but his case for conspiracy is held together ...
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