If it is a hoax then there are numerous “actors” who are willing to support that quack “doctor” including another physician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fqq5GiDU8M
I agree with you and I don’t see the NIH letting themselves get entangled with a huckster.
My wife had a stroke two years ago and suffers from left-side neglect as a result. Her quality of life and being confined to a chair has suffered and sometimes I myself feel helpless and somehow at fault for not fixing this for her. Taking a toll on me as well as I am her primary caregiver and still holding a full time job, I can’t retire for two more years and all our family is 1200 miles away.
I will differently be keeping tabs on this.
That is true of all frauds.