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
Nov. 16, 2016 (Updated: May 23, 2017)
Sensationalist stories about how cooking with aluminum foil could spur the onset of Alzheimer's ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 16, 2016
A laboratory test performed by food activists went viral, but its results and the allegations dr ...
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Nov. 14, 2016
A pilot study hints at potential cognitive benefits to regular medical marijuana use, but the sc ...
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Nov. 14, 2016
Clean coal is more of an idea than a reality, and many scientists doubt it will ever become an e ...
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Nov. 13, 2016
The VP-elect may not have absolutely denied the phenomenon of evolution, but he has said that "i ...
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Nov. 12, 2016
A 1982 study of Tibetan practitioners of "g-tummo" yoga did indeed demonstrate their ability to ...
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Nov. 11, 2016
An early New York Times report about Adolf Hitler woefully misjudged the virulence of his anti-s ...
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Nov. 11, 2016
Abortion rates have risen and fallen throughout presidencies of both parties, making drawing a d ...
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Nov. 10, 2016
President-elect Trump has selected Myron Ebell, who disputes the scientific consensus around ant ...
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Nov. 9, 2016
The largest full moon in several decades won’t be surpassed until November 2034.
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Nov. 8, 2016
Scientists have been debating a connection between lunar cycles and earthquakes for decades, but ...
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Nov. 5, 2016
It does make scientific sense that some components of coconut oil could improve cognitive perfor ...
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Nov. 3, 2016
Some outlets have implied a connection between an annually-released actuarial study lowering a p ...
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Nov. 2, 2016
Viral claims about humans’ ability to sense and feed off of one another’s emotional energy are t ...
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Nov. 1, 2016
A team of researchers ponders a future in which Facebook plays an active role in all aspects of ...
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Nov. 1, 2016
More than a decade after it was unearthed, an enigmatic rock may turn out to preserve the first ...
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Oct. 31, 2016
A preliminary study of a hormonal form of birth control for men was halted due to side effects c ...
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Oct. 28, 2016
Anti-vaccine advocates have long used the Amish as evidence that vaccines cause autism, a conclu ...
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Oct. 28, 2016
Domestic dogs split from their wild counterpart, the grey wolf, quite recently by evolutionary t ...
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Oct. 27, 2016
Though we can’t yet see them directly, decades-old data may suggest the presence of two previous ...
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