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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June 5, 2020
The Denver Police Department is investigating the incident.
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June 3, 2020
The “color of the day” system was first instituted by the NYPD street crime unit in the 1970s.
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June 2, 2020
“I dramatically underestimated Twitter,” the video’s creator said after it went viral.
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May 20, 2020
The driving force behind Michigan's anti-lockdown protests — and their connections to the family ...
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April 24, 2020
While it isn't unusual to see international cooperation in the field of virology, this claim str ...
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April 22, 2020 (Updated: June 8, 2020)
Conspiracy theorists misrepresent Bill Gates’ funding of vaccination and digital-identity resear ...
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April 15, 2020
A chiropractor's screed against "fake news" and his advocacy for the curative properties of Schw ...
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April 7, 2020
The U.S. president is invested in several mutual funds — some of which include very minor stakes ...
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April 7, 2020
While the stimulus payment is technically a tax credit, its categorization as such was made only ...
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April 3, 2020
Scientists do not know exactly when or where the first COVID-19 case occurred. Does that mean it ...
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April 1, 2020
The coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 has deadly adaptations that make it perfect for infecti ...
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March 30, 2020
A blog post asserting that people responded well to an experimental COVID-19 treatment is in no ...
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March 26, 2020
As cures go, these ones are lemons.
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March 25, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump presented the results of an extremely limited study to suggest a lar ...
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March 23, 2020
A viral Facebook post argues the mutation rate of the coronavirus is responsible for its pandemi ...
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March 20, 2020 (Updated: July 8, 2020)
Such an observation would have an impact on how medical professionals identify those most at ris ...
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March 17, 2020
Ethylene glycol, used in antifreeze, is indeed extremely poisonous to animals. But does hand san ...
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March 16, 2020 (Updated: March 18, 2020)
Oscar, a digital health-insurance startup that recently set up a service for users to find COVID ...
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