eli5 What is the difference between an osteopath and an MD?
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An MD is a real doctor; an osteopath (or “DO”) is not. But of course, like espousers of Chinese Traditional ‘Medicine’, the osteopaths have formed associations and mounted propaganda/P.R./marketing campaigns to sort of launder their pseudoscience and give it a false sense of respectability. They have been rather more successful in that ruse in the United States than in other First-World countries. You can read more about it in articles like [this one](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fsciencebiz%2F2010%2F10%2F27%2Fosteopaths-versus-doctors%2F%3Fsh%3D68bfa8581033) and [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathy).
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