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
April 6, 2018
A solicitation put out by the United States Department of Homeland Security seeks a contractor t ...
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April 5, 2018
A purported KKK recruitment flyer found in Alabama praised the policies of President Donald Trump.
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April 4, 2018
The findings run counter to political arguments against legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
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April 3, 2018
President Trump used the occurrence of an annual human rights demonstration as a reason to deplo ...
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March 29, 2018
Point Nemo is the point in the ocean furthest from any land, but it’s not the only place where a ...
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March 29, 2018
Media reports conflate a number of events, some of them speculative, to manufacture the existenc ...
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March 27, 2018
There was a well-publicized petition to construct such a monument, but it has not been realized ...
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March 23, 2018
An argument presented by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests a wall would save the Unite ...
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March 16, 2018
While there have been promising developments in the effort to create an artificial, implantable ...
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March 15, 2018 (Updated: March 24, 2018)
Despite a flurry of reporting to the contrary, the mystery of Earhart’s final resting place has ...
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Feb. 26, 2018
Viral stories rehash a legal tussle between Pepsi and the Center for Environmental Health, but t ...
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Feb. 23, 2018
George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist and constant target of right-wing conspiracy theories ...
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Feb. 22, 2018
Burt Minor, a candidate for the Illinois state legislature, reportedly asked a black GOP candida ...
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Feb. 21, 2018
There are almost no circumstances under which someone can sue a manufacturer in civil court for ...
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Feb. 21, 2018
Donald Trump filed a trademark application for his campaign slogan in November 2012, despite cla ...
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Feb. 19, 2018
Dubious web sites have used students' purportedly conflicting accounts of a Florida mass shootin ...
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Feb. 19, 2018
A shady web site promised a cure for the supposedly imminent plague to members who pay a $74 fee.
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Feb. 15, 2018
In February 2017, President Trump repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have made it easie ...
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Feb. 14, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 15, 2018)
Tamiflu is not responsible for the high number of flu season deaths, even if its potential rare ...
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Feb. 14, 2018
This claim is based on the incorrect interpretation of single quote from one nurse in Wisconsin ...
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