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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Oct. 25, 2016
Astronomers analyzed a database of spectra from 2.5 million stars and were unable to explain the ...
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Oct. 25, 2016
A perfect storm of sensationalist, ratings-driven science TV, and extremely lazy click-driven jo ...
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Oct. 24, 2016
More than 30,000 people may have signed a petition challenging the veracity of anthropogenic glo ...
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Oct. 21, 2016
Online images tout the sparsely researched claim that a woman’s brain shrinks during pregnancy, ...
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Oct. 20, 2016
Talk of a Harvard study linking the popular British children’s show “Peppa Pig” to autism went v ...
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Oct. 19, 2016
Scientists with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have come up with a relatively efficient way t ...
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Oct. 19, 2016
The critically endangered Titicaca Water Frog -- popularly referred to as the “scrotum frog” due ...
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Oct. 18, 2016
A newspaper clipping from 1912 that anticipates the global warming potential of burning coal is ...
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Oct. 17, 2016
A urine-powered generator built by a team of high school girls at Maker Faire Africa in 2012 is ...
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Oct. 17, 2016
A chilling account of a gruesome illness caused by recalled tampons is merely a work of horror f ...
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Oct. 15, 2016
Alternative health websites tout the idea that a diet rich in vitamin D can help regrow material ...
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Oct. 14, 2016
While the Great Barrier Reef is far from healthy, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
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Oct. 13, 2016
New research suggests a connection between Vitamin B12 deficiencies and premature ejaculation, b ...
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Oct. 13, 2016
A photograph purporting to show a recently discovered “giant” human footprint has been making wa ...
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Oct. 13, 2016
A retired astronaut with some eccentric views did attempt to set up a meeting with Hillary Clint ...
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Oct. 11, 2016
Viral news stories claimed that "new research" proved your intelligence is inherited only from y ...
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Oct. 11, 2016
In the wake of rising costs, consumers are sharing potentially dangerous alternatives to the Epi ...
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Oct. 9, 2016
Viral news stories misattributed an article written by "9/11 Truth" advocates as one published i ...
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Oct. 8, 2016
It’s flu season, and that means a whole new wave of recycled anti-vaccine fearmongering.
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Oct. 1, 2016
A viral post suggests that your kid’s snacks are laced with cancer-causing petroleum products, b ...
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