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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March 28, 2019
A machining company’s promotional material has gone viral.
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March 28, 2019
A viral image shows a Nepenthes plant in the early stages of developing its characteristic pit t ...
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March 26, 2019
The company pledged in 2015 to phase out the class of pesticides over concerns that they harmed ...
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March 20, 2019
Invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS) infections are definitely not new.
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March 19, 2019 (Updated: March 22, 2019)
Tamara Rubin, aka #LeadSafeMama, frequently finds high levels of lead in vintage cookware or oth ...
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March 18, 2019
Gordon Ernst was one of the coaches alleged to have accepted bribes from parents to provide entr ...
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March 14, 2019
A video shot at a public housing project makes numerous, factually challenged claims about Syria ...
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March 12, 2019
We definitely know that he was an early member of Greenpeace.
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March 12, 2019
The State Department withdrew an award they had given to Finnish investigative journalist Jessik ...
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March 11, 2019
Biden's remarks appeared in an expansive 1974 'Washingtonian' feature following his election as ...
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March 5, 2019
A viral story from 2017 mischaracterized legislation that was signed into law in 2018.
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March 3, 2019
Star News Digital Media, Inc. may look like a media company that produces local news, but a Snop ...
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Feb. 27, 2019
Seven year old Emma Mertens is fighting a rare brain tumor. Her love of dogs led family friends ...
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Feb. 19, 2019
The environmental agency did use emergency exemptions to permit the application of the pesticide ...
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Feb. 15, 2019
Anthony Hobson, who killed his girlfriend and her unborn child, was originally going to be charg ...
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Feb. 11, 2019
Such quantitative sounding claims are great for viral shares and page views but are meaningless ...
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Feb. 5, 2019
A meme rearranged excerpts from President Donald Trump’s pre-taped remarks at the 46th annual Ma ...
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Feb. 1, 2019
Paula White, a member of Trump’s evangelical advisory committee, is a televangelist who preaches ...
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Feb. 1, 2019 (Updated: Feb. 5, 2019)
While a relationship between eye color and tolerance to alcohol may exist, the topic is far less ...
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Jan. 30, 2019
A chain message made a series of questionable assertions about President Trump’s signature borde ...
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