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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June 19, 2018
Headlines regarding the seismic potential of sports fans are largely meaningless from a scientif ...
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June 13, 2018
The Trump campaign claimed that it could suppress Clinton votes twelve days before the 2016 elec ...
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June 11, 2018 (Updated: Dec. 10, 2019)
The Environmental Protection Agency will be allowing for potential new uses of asbestos, while l ...
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June 8, 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that 10,773 unaccompanied immigrant childr ...
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June 6, 2018
Neither the Constitution nor hundreds of years of Supreme Court rulings have directly answered t ...
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June 4, 2018
Viral stories falsely suggest that a NIH fact sheet was “quietly” amended to state that cannabis ...
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June 1, 2018
This story, like the feeding behavior of the animal in question, is a deep dive.
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June 1, 2018
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will prosecute ANZ, Deutsche Bank, and Citigr ...
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May 31, 2018 (Updated: June 1, 2018)
The Internet is full of dubious claims regarding a genius Zimbabwean inventor, but nobody has ev ...
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May 26, 2018
In March 2018, Facebook changed their policies regarding branded content, leaving many publisher ...
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May 23, 2018
Meetings between Trump campaign officials and representatives of an intelligence firm that promi ...
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May 22, 2018
Reporters for three news agencies were prevented, in at least one case with physical force, from ...
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May 18, 2018 (Updated: May 21, 2018)
On human timescales, sediment and rocks flowing into the ocean do not appreciably contribute to ...
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May 16, 2018
From a factual standpoint, the audio is a recording of the word "laurel," but that hasn’t stoppe ...
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May 15, 2018
While the term itself is not recognized by any scientific body, thunderstorm-associated asthma i ...
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May 15, 2018
Research suggests that most of the health effects from a good marriage are positive, but perhaps ...
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May 14, 2018
The #PitbullDropOff hashtag and related claims of mass dog killing stem from a sophomoric troll ...
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May 12, 2018
A video shows a can of the liquid outperforming brake cleaner on a grimy workbench; scientifical ...
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May 11, 2018
An image apparently showing Iran's Supreme Leader reading Michael Wolff’s controversial book abo ...
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May 11, 2018
The USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing all 290 civilians aboard in one of the ...
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