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. 27, 2017
As both PBS and NPR receive only a fraction of their budget from the federal government, Preside ...
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Jan. 26, 2017
There may well be plenty of things to worry about, but a civilization-destroying asteroid is not ...
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Jan. 25, 2017
What started as offhand comments on social media have spiraled into the beginnings of a potentia ...
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Jan. 25, 2017
Reports that the EPA was ordered to remove their climate change page were met with outrage in th ...
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Jan. 24, 2017
Leaders in both Mississippi and Georgia are calling for federal relief after a swarm of deadly t ...
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Jan. 24, 2017
Sleeping with onion slices in your socks might give you more space in bed, but it’s certainly no ...
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Jan. 23, 2017
Multiple news outlets, citing anonymous sources, reported that the Trump administration had fro ...
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Jan. 23, 2017
A quote from a 1995 book by the late astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan struck a ner ...
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Jan. 20, 2017
Capsaicin does have cancer fighting properties in the lab, but its use as an anti-cancer therapy ...
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Jan. 18, 2017
For the first time since the 1970s, estimates for the number of abortions performed in the Unite ...
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Jan. 18, 2017
The proposed budget cuts would represent 0.006 percent of 2016’s federal spending.
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Jan. 18, 2017
From a binomial nomenclature standpoint, its name is Neopalpa donaldtrumpi.
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Jan. 18, 2017
American, British, and Japanese agencies (plus an independent research group) have all concluded ...
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Jan. 18, 2017
A controversial film suggests that 35,000 servicemembers died from anthrax vaccinations, but we ...
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Jan. 17, 2017
The August 2016 case highlights a new front in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
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Jan. 17, 2017
This claim has its roots in an unsourced article from a man who likely does not exist, and whose ...
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Jan. 13, 2017
The U.S. military is indeed interested in developing bullets that won’t leave training ranges en ...
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Jan. 12, 2017
The fact that there is no such thing as vitamin B17 is among the least problematic elements of t ...
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Jan. 11, 2017
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a proponent of the discredited link between vaccines and autism, met wit ...
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Jan. 9, 2017
In reality, however, this study’s aims were a bit more nuanced and far less cheese-based than re ...
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