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 11, 2017
Though perhaps imbued with more relevance in light of events on the Korean Peninsula, the test h ...
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July 10, 2017
Research using a chemical that stimulates stem cells in degraded teeth has been tested in mice w ...
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July 6, 2017
On 4 July 2017, as the radio network tweeted the Declaration of Independence line by line, numer ...
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July 5, 2017
Does recent unusual geothermic and seismic activity in Yellowstone Park foretell a coming catacl ...
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July 3, 2017
An imprecise test that appeared to show Starbucks drinks were contaminated prompted internet hys ...
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June 28, 2017
Their position statement on saturated fat has drawn the ire of people partial to coconut oil, bu ...
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June 26, 2017 (Updated: Feb. 29, 2024)
This claim, like the microchimerism the viral article responsible for it purports to describe, i ...
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June 23, 2017
A controversial 2014 study used survey data to demonstrate that 38 people might have voted as no ...
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June 20, 2017
While both bills could be faulted for periods of closed-door negotiations, experts agreed that t ...
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June 19, 2017
While attributed to Hitler, this “leftist” quote actually came from one of Hitler’s political ri ...
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June 14, 2017
Are yawns contagious, or is it all a statistically manufactured illusion?
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June 14, 2017
Viral web sites massively exaggerate the risk posed by these plants, even if that risk is rooted ...
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June 8, 2017
An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a climate skeptic blog to amplify ...
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June 8, 2017
A prominent anti-vaccine web site has promoted heartbreaking stories of illnesses and deaths whi ...
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June 6, 2017
While not all printers do this, nearly all color laser printers — at the urging of the United St ...
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June 5, 2017
The leaked documents provided new details about the extent and nature of Russian hacking in the ...
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June 1, 2017
Cities are mulling over their own paths forward after the United States' withdrawal from the lan ...
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May 31, 2017
From a Constitutional perspective, the answer is less clear than you might think.
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May 30, 2017
This factoid has been repeated so often it might as well be true, but "research" on which it is ...
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May 24, 2017
This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
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