Now that I have been able to get access to Boyd Haley's commercial web
site (the one which Jan Drew advertises all the time), I see that he
is charging $500 for an unapproved test for Amytrophic Lateral
Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease). All the published research
about the test and its underlying theory was done by, wait for it,
don't get impatient, Dr Boyd Haley.

If he follows the pattern of fraud used in the Roy Smith case (see
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/altmedicine.htm or
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/history/2001/05may.htm, or get Jan to
tell you how Roy was robbed), then he will find the marker for ALS and
then tell whoever has been tested that they need to have some very
expensive chelation to fix the problem.

Testing young people for ALS and then treating them is a much better
scam than curing cancer or diabetes. You do the test, produce the
"positive" results and give the treatment. ALS is quite rare and
doesn't show up until the victim is getting on in years, so if the
person never gets it (like most of the population) they will thank
Haley and no begrudge him the money he stole. If they do happen to get
ALS, Haley will be long gone with the stolen money, and, even if he is
still around, he can claim that the treatment is not perfect.

In fact, it's a perfect scam.

I am offering a test for prostate cancer. It costs $450 and requires a
urine sample. It is such a sensitive test that it is only useful on
men less than twenty years old, because after that the testing
equipment gets overloaded. The treatment costs $10,000 and comes with
a five-year guarantee. If you don't require surgery by the time you
are forty years old then it is obvious that the treatment worked.

I am also working on a test for presbyopia, to be given to
12-year-olds. The test will cost about $300 and the treatment for
indolent asymptomatic presbyopia will cost $1,000. If you don't need
reading glasses by the age of 30 the treatment worked.