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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July 20, 2018
A Russian asbestos producer shared a photograph of their product to social media with a seal of ...
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July 19, 2018
Although the the production or import of a chemical used in Freon will be banned in the U.S. beg ...
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July 18, 2018
The act, which has had all but one of its provisions replaced or repealed, prevents anyone from ...
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July 18, 2018
The Yellowstone-Grand Teton National Park area is among the most geologically active in the coun ...
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July 17, 2018
An attention-grabbing headline mischaracterized actual polio vaccine contamination in the 1950s ...
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July 17, 2018
The company gained prominence by asserting they were compliant with Facebook’s rules at a time w ...
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July 9, 2018
The United States’ objection to what was expected to be an uncontroversial resolution shocked de ...
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July 6, 2018
During a rally in Montana, President Trump went on a tangent about crowd size in which he compar ...
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July 6, 2018
“It is huge relief that they did not get to the rhino,” the owner of South Africa’s Sibuya Game ...
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July 5, 2018
This claim, in circulation since at least 2012, is mathematically impossible and factually defic ...
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July 5, 2018
Some record-setting moonside shade is on the books for late July 2018.
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July 2, 2018
A common rumor holds that a car bearing a full tank of gas on an exceptionally hot day may explo ...
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July 2, 2018
Maxine Waters is in line to become chair of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats ...
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June 29, 2018
Billboards next to Georgia and Oklahoma highways reference a farcical and ill-defined "Deep Stat ...
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June 29, 2018
One officer reportedly became ill after coming into contact with a paper printed with informatio ...
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June 27, 2018
Both the White House and Attorney General have used (and misused) a rudimentary and unverifiable ...
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June 25, 2018
Claims that lawmakers voted to spend a Social Security surplus to pay off government debt stem f ...
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June 22, 2018
Fracking does not take place on Hawaii’s Big Island, but that is far from the only problem with ...
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June 20, 2018 (Updated: June 21, 2018)
The White House senior advisor is the great-grandson of a Jewish immigrant who fled the poverty ...
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June 19, 2018
Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges ...
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