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.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 9, 2016
There is a lot of speculative science from the man who invented the diet, but actual evidence in ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 7, 2016
Genetically distinct fetal cells can remain in a mother’s body for decades after birth and can e ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 7, 2016
A chemical isolated from an obscure Australian berry has shown potential as a tumor-killing agen ...
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Dec. 7, 2016
Trump’s transition team announced that Scott Pruitt has been tapped to lead the EPA, an agency w ...
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Dec. 7, 2016
The study is sound, but its aim was to investigate correlation, not causation.
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Dec. 6, 2016
Native American trackers were supposedly recruited by the U.S. military for service during the V ...
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Dec. 5, 2016
Viral warnings about disease-carrying ticks in Christmas trees ignore much of the scientific lit ...
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Dec. 3, 2016
Synthesizing a pharmaceutical is an impressive high school project, but the feat won’t change an ...
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Dec. 1, 2016
“The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global war ...
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Dec. 1, 2016
A heartwarming anecdote tells of the future inventor's mother fibbing to her son about his expul ...
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Nov. 30, 2016 (Updated: Sept. 20, 2024)
Claims that Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau had an affair that produced the current Canadian p ...
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Nov. 29, 2016
The study, published in a controversial journal, was removed after widespread criticism of its m ...
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Nov. 27, 2016
While Carson does not buy into the theory of the Big Bang origin of our cosmos, a viral meme mis ...
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Nov. 26, 2016
Several studies suggest that a specific constituent of cannabis could aid in the healing of brok ...
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Nov. 25, 2016
Depending on which of the many explanations you prefer, this propulsion system violates myriad l ...
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Nov. 21, 2016
Some jellyfish do meet the definition of biologic immortality, but lobsters do not make the cut.
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Nov. 21, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission will be requiring homeopathic medicine to explicitly state the scie ...
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Nov. 21, 2016
An alarming-looking chart of global sea ice coverage is an accurate reflection of the available ...
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Nov. 19, 2016
Metaphysical websites misuse a real scientific phenomenon to argue that time is changing.
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Nov. 17, 2016
A claim that "liberal millennials" are "not likely to survive the next natural selection event” ...
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