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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Feb. 25, 2017
A new initiative lead by a Tufts University mathematics professor thinks this field of research ...
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Feb. 24, 2017
To paraphrase the actual scientists involved with the research: "No."
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Feb. 23, 2017
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested that the Trump administration will likely enfo ...
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Feb. 22, 2017
It is unclear how Earth-like any of these new planets actually might be, but the discovery is im ...
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Feb. 21, 2017
An exhaustive study demonstrated significant and immediate declines in teenage suicide attempts ...
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Feb. 18, 2017
A recent paper creates the first detailed argument in favor of considering the submerged land su ...
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Feb. 17, 2017
Though the bill's motivation is disputed, it would repeal a law that clarifies the legitimacy of ...
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Feb. 17, 2017
More accurately, Congress passed the repeal of an Obama-era measure that would have made it easi ...
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Feb. 16, 2017
Despite arguments that vaccines are to blame for rising peanut allergies, the claim that peanut ...
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Feb. 13, 2017
SpaceX is transporting an experiment that hopes to document genetic mutations to MRSA as a way t ...
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Feb. 9, 2017
The British Antarctic Survey decided against wintering scientists in their Halley VI Station aft ...
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Feb. 9, 2017
Despite headlines suggesting otherwise, the coincidence of a full moon and a lunar eclipse is no ...
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Feb. 9, 2017
Despite their best efforts, 16 male rhesus monkeys treated with an experimental injectable contr ...
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Feb. 8, 2017
A tabloid used testimony from a single scientist to paint an excruciatingly technical matter as ...
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Feb. 6, 2017
A joint resolution headed for President Trump’s signature would repeal a law that limited mining ...
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Feb. 3, 2017
The discovery of ancient crystals trapped in the rocks of the island of Mauritius hint at the ex ...
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Feb. 3, 2017
Despite early uncertainty, the weight of scientific evidence and medical consensus is that abort ...
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Feb. 1, 2017
Collagen, uh, finds a way...
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Jan. 30, 2017
This claim is rooted in the willfully negligent reading of a NASA press release by a U.K. tabloi ...
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Jan. 30, 2017
Though her citizenship status was apparently incorrectly documented in the 1940 United States ce ...
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