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.
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Aug. 6, 2021 (Updated: Aug. 7, 2021)
Karen Kingston, who worked in a non-scientific role at Pfizer from 1996-1998, claimed she found ...
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Aug. 2, 2021
A website dedicated almost solely to headlines about famous people being arrested and tried by m ...
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July 16, 2021
Proponents of the "COVID lab leak" theory that COVID-19 originated as a result of work performed ...
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July 4, 2021
The anecdote first appeared in 1953.
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July 2, 2021
To some, it may just be the greatest newspaper graphic ever made.
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June 30, 2021
"We're working on fixing it," a representative for Twitter tweeted.
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June 14, 2021
The pandemic did not lend itself to door-to-door cookie sales.
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June 8, 2021
"The question of taste is a very subjective value," the creative director of the fashion company ...
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June 7, 2021
The advertisement — a faux front page of USA Today's weekend print edition wrapped around the re ...
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June 4, 2021 (Updated: June 5, 2021)
There is no constitutional way for this to happen.
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May 11, 2021
Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist, first described what he called "autistic psychopathy" i ...
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May 10, 2021
The company is reportedly providing 10,000 free pairs a day to healthcare workers from now until ...
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May 6, 2021
Other states that allow for death by firing squad, at least in some cases, are Mississippi, Okla ...
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May 5, 2021
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the CDC Foundation are two separate enti ...
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May 3, 2021
This venerable lake sturgeon could well have been born during the presidency of Warren G. Harding.
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May 3, 2021
This is not the first time an octopus from Western Australia became famous on the internet.
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May 3, 2021 (Updated: July 2, 2024)
A drone-powered hoverboard? Gliding through city traffic?
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May 2, 2021
The former president's remarks were captured at a $2,900 per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.
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May 2, 2021
The Unicode Consortium will be rolling out an emoji update sometime in 2022.
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May 2, 2021
The GOP politician and former U.N. ambassador's middle name is Nikki — a Punjabi term for "littl ...
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