well, at least in America we have standards to prevent this...

[acroyear]

This product contains vacuum | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine:

I don’t know if some advertisers are stupid, or if they assume we’re stupid.

Case in point: I hear commercials where they say things like they’re product is "all natural". I like to point out that arsenic is an element. You can’t get much more natural than that, but I don’t want it in my lemonade.

So what do you do when a product is advertised as having no chemicals in it? Especially when it’s Miracle Gro, a product I’m pretty sure has at least some chemicals in it. Well, if you’re like me, you blog about it. If you are the UK government’s body in charge of advertising, you say it’s OK for companies to lie about their products on the air.

The subject above, was, of course, sarcastic.  The link basically describes how the British Government basically decided to redefine "Chemistry" rather than insist on a higher standard.  Gee, I wonder where they learned that lesson - just redefine the word so it means what you think it means, and you're morally in the clear...

The final comment is worth reading:

If you want the respectability that scientific grounding brings, you can't abandon that process when it doesn't agree with your current understanding. If anything, science means challenging perceived truths, however uncomfortable that may be.