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Sports and Pseudoscience: A Strange Partnership?

From elite athletes following supposedly harmless alternative therapies like ‘cupping’, to others endorsing truly bizarre conspiracy theories such as the Earth being flat, Alex Ismail asks why influential sports people are more likely to fall prey to pseudoscience. By Alex Ismail Illustration by Zainab Shakeel Page design by Ciara Lurshay


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REVIEWS: Impact Reviews Recommends

4min
pages 52-53

Sports and Pseudoscience: A Strange Partnership?

6min
pages 50-51

UoN Sports Clubs’ Season Roundup

8min
pages 46-47

Claim to Game: Could Gaming Land You Your Next Job?

3min
pages 44-45

The World of Wordle

2min
pages 42-43

Global Politics, Dictators, and Sport: A Match Made in Heaven?

5min
pages 48-49

Bodega, Bathrooms and Bowling: Talking with The Amazons

4min
pages 40-41

Impactuated: Impact Play Cupid

3min
pages 38-39

From Runways to Rejection: An Interview with a Student Model

3min
pages 30-34

Climate Change: How can we Choose Hope?

6min
pages 26-27

“Flat Earthers aren’t Stupid” Why we should Meaningfully Engage with Conspiracy Theorists

3min
pages 24-25

How will the War in Ukraine affect the Food Landscape of our Future?

3min
page 22

Impact Chats with Award Winning Actor Adrian Scarborough

5min
pages 36-37

Vegan Stereotypes: Are they Harming the Movement?

2min
page 23

Soul-Searching and Surfing: What’s the Point Behind ‘Gap Yahs’?

3min
page 28

We’re Angry and Upset: Class of 2022 got only

3min
pages 20-21

Strikes, Salaries and the Students’ Union: Head to Head with VC Shearer West

4min
pages 8-9

Nottingham’s Nightlife: Problematic Bouncers Rife in our City?

2min
pages 12-13

To Panic Masters, or not to Panic Masters?

2min
page 14

Commissioners, Costs and Comparisons Impact’s Stalking Investigation Continued

5min
pages 10-11

“Like a Really Weird School Trip”: Behind the Lines

6min
pages 16-17

of the Trent Building Student Occupation Queerness, Religion and Authenticity: A Letter to my Younger Self

3min
pages 18-19

35 Years of Conflict: Sir Stuart Atha, Ukraine and ‘Huge Gambles’

3min
pages 6-7

Nottingham’s Dating Horror Stories

3min
page 15
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