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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Aug. 17, 2018
Juries sometimes render verdicts on scientific questions, but that doesn’t mean their verdict is ...
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Aug. 15, 2018 (Updated: Aug. 17, 2018)
No adverse events have reported from the affected pills, but some ingredients were produced in a ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 14, 2018 (Updated: Aug. 16, 2018)
Two American citizens adopted a Peruvian toddler legally under Peruvian law, but the United Stat ...
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Aug. 14, 2018
A deceptive and factually challenged blog post on an anti-vaccine website is not a “Harvard stud ...
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Aug. 9, 2018
Curved or “clubbed” fingernails have been used as an indicator of health since the time of Hippo ...
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Aug. 8, 2018
Of the six kinds of crayons the U.S. Public Interest Research Group tested, one brand contained ...
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Aug. 7, 2018
During the tumultuous collapse of the Soviet Union, some Russian cities did require “buyer’s car ...
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Aug. 4, 2018
Experts urge that no one other than trained beekeepers maintaining colonies during a dearth of n ...
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Aug. 2, 2018
A liquid nitrogen-infused cereal puffball that allows one to “breathe” like a dragon may also ha ...
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Aug. 1, 2018
Two unrelated videos, one of a large landslide and the other of a frozen debris flow, have been ...
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Aug. 1, 2018
An intentionally scary infographic got most, but not all, of the facts right about margarine pro ...
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July 31, 2018
A viral warning seems to ignore the obvious truth that eggs and bananas are commonly and delicio ...
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July 30, 2018
Statistics sound much scarier when presented without any context whatsoever.
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July 30, 2018
Oysters sustain themselves by sucking microscopic plankton out of the waters they inhabit, and t ...
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July 26, 2018
A photograph of an alleged zebra has gone viral, inviting global skepticism about the creature’s ...
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July 26, 2018
An NFC chip was present in the Adidas soccer ball Putin gave to Trump as a gift, but the chip is ...
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July 26, 2018 (Updated: July 31, 2018)
A settlement between the U.S. government and a gun-rights group has, in that group’s words, ushe ...
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July 25, 2018
In 1965, an obese man actually survived without eating for over a year, living entirely off his ...
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July 24, 2018
Unusual pre-election communication between a Russian bank and a Trump Organization server may ha ...
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July 23, 2018
An article’s factually ridiculous headline attempted to demonstrate people’s proclivity to share ...
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