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. 29, 2018
Numerous substances are liquid, white, and opaque, and not all of them are milk.
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Oct. 26, 2018
A YouTuber’s staged video has been taken seriously by several media outlets despite some telling ...
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Oct. 26, 2018
The story of a heartbreaking illness following a routine flu shot has been used to scare people ...
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Oct. 24, 2018
A viral video captures a woman using a musical tool to translate changes in a plant’s conductivi ...
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Oct. 24, 2018
The tale of a David Hahn, who earned a merit badge in atomic energy and then turned his backyard ...
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Oct. 22, 2018
A memo reported on by the New York Times presages a federal government that may recognize only b ...
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Oct. 21, 2018
The notion that a pig’s lack of functional sweat glands has anything to do with its risk of tran ...
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Oct. 15, 2018
Numerous websites list cream of tartar as a home remedy for headaches, but the scientific claims ...
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Oct. 12, 2018
The research arm of The Economist magazine releases an annual “Democracy Index” ranking the stre ...
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Oct. 10, 2018
A theoretical NASA paper written in 2015 was misconstrued in 2018 to suggest an urgent need to g ...
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Oct. 10, 2018
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has urged hunters to be on the lookout for signs of ...
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Oct. 9, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 24, 2020)
LaCroix’s parent company is being sued over the allegedly false claim that the product is “all n ...
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Oct. 5, 2018
Software engineer and cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee claimed the presidential alert system ...
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Oct. 3, 2018 (Updated: June 17, 2019)
Gamble v. United States concerns a felon who was arrested for possession of a firearm. It could ...
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Oct. 2, 2018
Same-sex UN personnel now need to be legally married to qualify for U.S. visas, even if their ho ...
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Oct. 1, 2018
Judge Brett Kavanaugh once ruled against a police shooting victim’s family, blocking financial d ...
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Sept. 28, 2018
The only similarity between the men in these two pictures is what appears to be a shared love of ...
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Sept. 28, 2018
Senate investigators interviewed two separate men who think they were responsible for the assaul ...
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Sept. 26, 2018
By the company’s own accounting, Amazon actually received a $137 million federal tax credit in t ...
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Sept. 25, 2018
The only thing that appears to be “absolutely fabricated” here is that statistic.
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