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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Jan. 9, 2018
Dubious YouTube videos aside, there is nothing unique about Aquafina bottled water that prevents ...
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Jan. 8, 2018
Researchers agree that an inactive Chinese space station will probably crash back to Earth by mi ...
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Jan. 5, 2018
It is possible to experience some psychoactive effects from secondhand exposure to marijuana smo ...
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Jan. 2, 2018
Clickbait headlines suggesting a future without chocolate were based on a distorted reading of e ...
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Dec. 30, 2017
Science denialism, clickbait headlines, and absurd pseudoscience: Our favorite science debunking ...
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Dec. 30, 2017
The controversial move followed the highly publicized resignation of six members in August 2017 ...
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Dec. 22, 2017
A covert DEA investigation into a Hezbollah drug smuggling operation was halted, allegedly, to a ...
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Dec. 22, 2017 (Updated: Feb. 26, 2018)
Breitbart pushed an extremely flawed study as evidence of a widespread conspiracy to inflate sea ...
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Dec. 22, 2017
The comedian "offered" two million dollars each to two Republican senators if they voted no on t ...
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Dec. 20, 2017
Viral reports of a woman’s harrowing experience with a life-threatening skin infection are mostl ...
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Dec. 19, 2017
Your elementary school teachers weren't lying to you -- this oft-repeated phrase is correct, but ...
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Dec. 15, 2017 (Updated: Dec. 18, 2017)
Policy analysts will be instructed to avoid using seven words in budget policy documents, includ ...
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Dec. 14, 2017
Sensational claims of President Donald Trump receiving a bomb via Amazon drone have their origin ...
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Dec. 14, 2017
Paranoid reports twisted the details of a tragic suicide to further a false narrative about the ...
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Dec. 12, 2017
While some studies have found that vegetarians have longer lifespans, the question is difficult ...
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Dec. 9, 2017
Another day, another discussion of crowd size at a Trump event.
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Dec. 9, 2017
A viral Facebook warning alleges a risk of chemical burn from a popular “Hatchimal” bath bomb pr ...
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Dec. 9, 2017
Reports of the arrest of one of Roy Moore's accusers of sexual abuse over "falsification" charge ...
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Dec. 7, 2017
A story employed the colorful portmanteau term "scromiting" to describe an illness potentially r ...
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Dec. 5, 2017
Myriad studies have suggested that turmeric can treat or prevent dementia, but evidence of its e ...
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