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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May 23, 2017
Although melting permafrost did cause flooding in the access tunnel to the vault, the vault itse ...
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May 19, 2017
A 1973 satirical column offering familiar-sounding responses to criticisms of the Nixon Administ ...
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May 18, 2017
While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cool ...
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May 18, 2017
Biographers say President Trump gave up exercise in college so as not to expend his finite energ ...
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May 16, 2017 (Updated: May 19, 2017)
This study, with its suspect statistics and devil-may-care attitude toward methodological design ...
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May 15, 2017
This claim, made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a solid illustration of why scale and context matt ...
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May 8, 2017
The move, which is considered unusual, aims to bring more industry scientists into the EPA’s adv ...
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May 4, 2017
The authors of the study, which claimed to show that plastic microbeads used in some cosmetics c ...
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May 3, 2017 (Updated: March 26, 2018)
This claim, inelegantly formulated on an alternative health website, is remarkable for both its ...
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April 28, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 22, 2017)
Studies suggesting a link between public water fluoridation and reduced intelligence rely on uns ...
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April 26, 2017
The researchers successfully tested the system on fetal lambs, but they hope that the technology ...
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April 25, 2017
A viral marketing campaign called a resource used in lithium batteries a secret superfuel — all ...
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April 18, 2017
This claim, rooted in scientific research that is increasingly seen as flawed, is likely an arti ...
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April 17, 2017
While we cannot prove a negative, there are few mechanisms by which a MOAB-like bomb would benef ...
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April 17, 2017
In the late 2000s, the former U.S. Vice President sometimes inaccurately represented studies tha ...
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April 13, 2017
While we cannot rate the questions addressed by the study, we can rate the study itself as appar ...
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April 13, 2017
The paper, which was authored by "Dr. Martin Van Nostrand" of the "Arthur Vandelay Urological Re ...
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April 10, 2017
While there is a limited amount of science behind some medical claims about bee propolis (market ...
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April 6, 2017
A 2014 study makes this argument, but its findings are complex and contested.
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April 6, 2017
Viral posts suggesting an increased risks of bathroom-borne pathogens by putting toilet paper on ...
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