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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Feb. 21, 2021
"I was looking around and it just popped up," said the woman whose Google Maps exploration led h ...
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Feb. 18, 2021
Let's get one thing out of the way — tobacco enemas were totally a thing.
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Feb. 17, 2021
The statement was part of an updated list of "35 undeniable truths" presented on Rush Limbaugh's ...
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Feb. 17, 2021
The fact that $600 plus $1,400 equals $2,000 is relevant here.
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Feb. 15, 2021
It is true that 2019 was the first year since 1957 in which the U.S. was energy independent.
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Feb. 14, 2021
"The copious lock of George Washington's grayish tan hair is tied together with a fine white th ...
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Feb. 14, 2021
Coastal erosion had its moment in the spotlight in early February 2021.
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Feb. 14, 2021 (Updated: April 29, 2024)
To enter the "Poison Garden" you must pass through a gate with a skull and crossbones.
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Feb. 14, 2021 (Updated: May 17, 2021)
Good luck identifying the part of this endless, ad-infested clickbait slideshow that purports to ...
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Feb. 14, 2021
The "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" actor married Leila George D'Onofrio in July 2020.
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Feb. 11, 2021
As the world's first and only fact-checking organization named after Faulkner characters, we wer ...
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Feb. 10, 2021
You can certainly find people claiming to sell them.
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Feb. 9, 2021
The event was witnessed by a plant employee viewing the shared desktop of a computer that contro ...
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Feb. 8, 2021
"Research on this particular topic is very limited," according to the authors of a 2018 case rep ...
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Feb. 7, 2021
"When wireless is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain," the i ...
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Feb. 7, 2021
Using an audio clip from a source other than the video being displayed is one of the more common ...
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Feb. 7, 2021 (Updated: March 7, 2024)
"God’s gift to me was my stuttering,” Biden once said.
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Feb. 7, 2021 (Updated: Feb. 8, 2021)
The so-called "global gag rule" was instated by Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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Feb. 7, 2021
Any plane carrying the President is designated "Air Force One."
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Feb. 4, 2021
The viral tweet was fake, but not as fake as you might think.
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