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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Jan. 21, 2021
The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, has troubling implications. But headlines focus ...
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Jan. 20, 2021
A 56-year-old Florida doctor died from a severe blood disorder 16 days after receiving the Pfize ...
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Jan. 19, 2021
The effort was the first COVID-19 vaccine candidate to be abandoned.
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Jan. 19, 2021
Researchers have warned that a certain form of COVID-19 vaccine could potentially increase the r ...
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Jan. 18, 2021
A new controversy reignited an ancient meme.
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Jan. 17, 2021
You may remember some of these organizers from the anti-COVID-lockdown “Operation Gridlock” prot ...
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Jan. 17, 2021
Researchers published a paper investigating the possibility that the iPhone 12's magnetic field ...
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Jan. 17, 2021
A death following vaccination is not necessarily evidence that the vaccination caused the death.
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Jan. 17, 2021
The hallucinogenic drug typically enters the body as a food or drink.
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Jan. 13, 2021 (Updated: June 22, 2022)
New Jersey Representative Mikie Sherrill made the assertion on a Facebook Live broadcast and has ...
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Jan. 12, 2021
The Facebook executive pointed to Facebook's "abilities to stop hate," "standards," and "transpa ...
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Jan. 12, 2021
John Barron is a name Trump used when leaking information to reporters in the 1980s and '90s.
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Jan. 12, 2021
Congress has been briefed on a number of potential threats of violence planned for the days lead ...
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Jan. 11, 2021
And if so, what message are they trying to send?
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Jan. 11, 2021
The wife of the Supreme Court justice has been a vocal activist for fringe right-wing causes for ...
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Jan. 8, 2021
The artist's "Save Your Tears" music video got people asking questions.
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Jan. 7, 2021
A video captured a two-way exchange of pepper spray between rioters and law enforcement.
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Jan. 7, 2021 (Updated: May 21, 2021)
One person was shot by Capitol Police during a pro-Trump mob's siege of the U.S. Capitol.
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Jan. 6, 2021
The theory is belied by the fact that Apple Maps provides directions to Washington, D.C.
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Jan. 6, 2021
There were several reports of shots fired amid the chaos that unfolded in Washington, D.C., on J ...
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