Hundreds of doctors has to be a lie, hasn't it?

They provide a list of Medical Providers for Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome that gives the addresses of doctors that supposedly follow their protocol. If you think it's a lie, then you could count the number of doctors in their list and contact a few of them as a sample.

And do you know if he happened upon the idea independently, or whether he's an intellectual descendant of Barnes and Lowe?

At the moment I don't know much more than what's written on the website.