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
Oct. 1, 2019
Presidential pardon power is famously broad.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 27, 2019
Three Democratic senators reached out to Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor general of Ukraine, in M ...
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Sept. 20, 2019
An Associated Press article from 1989 is popular among climate-change deniers.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 13, 2019 (Updated: Aug. 4, 2021)
The house was reported to be in escrow in late August 2019.
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Sept. 12, 2019
Among other issues, a troubling headline about "beating baby hearts" resulted in accusations of ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 12, 2019
The conservative commentator, whose companies Snopes reported on in March, was jailed after fail ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 12, 2019
The final step in this infographic is sharing a brandy with the newly amputated patient.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 5, 2019
At issue are so-called Milankovich cycles, which describe three periodic variations in the way t ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 4, 2019
A prize-winning, high-school science project claiming to be a new diagnostic tool for cancer cam ...
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Aug. 30, 2019
The findings do not identify a “gay gene” but contribute to a body of research suggesting myriad ...
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Aug. 29, 2019
Are you a medical-marijuana licensee in the state of Oklahoma?
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 29, 2019
Even if they are, it is unlikely fentanyl exposure by simple skin contact could poison someone.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 27, 2019
A report from Axios suggested the question was raised on more than one occasion.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 27, 2019
Saving the species from extinction has been a central focus of the movies' storyline.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 23, 2019 (Updated: Aug. 3, 2022)
We look deeply at viral claims about Cecilia Payne, one of the most influential and overlooked f ...
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Aug. 21, 2019
Posting a "legal notice" to a social media account has no real effect on the social platform, ei ...
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Aug. 20, 2019
As it turns out, Tom Selleck is not the same person as Jon Voight.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 19, 2019
Some great fiction has been penned about vaccines in the internet era.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 16, 2019
The Internet is littered with dubious and sometimes predatory claims about cancer.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 16, 2019
The burger-imitation products do share a few ingredients with some brands of vegan, grain-free “ ...
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