I'd wager fewer than 25% of Americans know that it's quackery invented in the 1890s.
Even fewer will know that osteopathy is exactly the same type of nonsense. No, an osteopath is not (necessarily) a "bone doctor".
The main confusion is that, in the US, schools of osteopathic medicine picked up enough real science that US Doctors of Osteopathy are real physicians... Even if the osteopathy part of their training is still pseudoscience.
A branch of "medicine" founded by a guy learning techniques from a ghost. What's not to like?
Chiropractic.
I'd wager fewer than 25% of Americans know that it's quackery invented in the 1890s.
Even fewer will know that osteopathy is exactly the same type of nonsense. No, an osteopath is not (necessarily) a "bone doctor".
The main confusion is that, in the US, schools of osteopathic medicine picked up enough real science that US Doctors of Osteopathy are real physicians... Even if the osteopathy part of their training is still pseudoscience.
A branch of "medicine" founded by a guy learning techniques from a ghost. What's not to like?