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
Feb. 13, 2018
President Donald Trump has proposed entirely privatizing the International Space Station by 2025 ...
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Feb. 12, 2018
His comments were reportedly a reference to the legal tradition of common law that the American ...
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Feb. 9, 2018
A "screening test" highlighted on the 'Today' show and subsequently amended by a series of dubio ...
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Feb. 7, 2018
The seeds of a number household plants can cause psychoactive effects, but they are far from a n ...
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Feb. 7, 2018
Rumors that ranitidine causes false positives for meth in drug screening have circulated for yea ...
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Feb. 1, 2018
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance document suggesting a new legal int ...
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Jan. 30, 2018
Psychiatric problems are possibly associated with the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu, but causation ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
If you donate to President Donald Trump’s re-election, your name will appear during a campaign-r ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
NASA has called the astronomical event in late January 2018 a "supermoon trilogy."
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 26, 2018 (Updated: Jan. 29, 2018)
Reports imply Indian farmers are using oxytocin to boost the size of their fruits or vegetables ...
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Jan. 25, 2018
Decrying a "non-stop feminization campaign against manhood," a GOP Senate candidate said he supp ...
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Jan. 24, 2018
The cow appears to be thriving in its new life as a bovine interloper.
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Jan. 23, 2018 (Updated: Jan. 25, 2018)
Charles and Elizabeth Koch gave nearly half a million dollars to the House Speaker's fundraising ...
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Jan. 22, 2018 (Updated: Jan. 24, 2018)
A factually dubious story about wetland degradation published the opinions of an alligator chef ...
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Jan. 17, 2018
Gabapentin’s potential for abuse, especially in combination with opioids, may have been misjudge ...
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Jan. 16, 2018
He sold the Trump Tower apartment to Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier through a Panamanian shell ...
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Jan. 15, 2018
Dubious websites are attempting to use a season in which the influenza vaccine is less effective ...
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Jan. 12, 2018
Emmanuel Mensah was a United States Army soldier and immigrant from Ghana who died saving his ne ...
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Jan. 11, 2018
Not only can the latest health craze put you in danger of contracting dangerous diseases, the pu ...
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Jan. 9, 2018
The meteorological phenomenon is rare but not unprecedented.
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