"Genetically wrinkled DNA"?!?!

[LarianLeQuella]

Okay, i heard this advert on the radio as I was driving in to work today, and I seriously had to say WTF are they even saying?! Some housewife is claiming to have accidentally discovered some cosmetic cream in Europe that smooths out your genetically wrinkled DNA... I think my brain achsploded from the sheer nonsense...

How can they even make such a claim? For a cosmetic product even?

 

[Careyp74]

as long as they aren't trying to say it cures a disease, there is no laws against what they are saying. When wrinkled DNA syndrome runs rampant though.......

 

[LarianLeQuella]

I couldn't stand to listen to the whole advert, so I don't know who I need to send a strongly worded letter to, but next time I hear this, I shall endeavour to listen to the whle thing so I can at least embarass them a bit with their woo talk...

 

[Beerina]

Okay, i heard this advert on the radio as I was driving in to work today, and I seriously had to say WTF are they even saying?! Some housewife is claiming to have accidentally discovered some cosmetic cream in Europe that smooths out your genetically wrinkled DNA... I think my brain achsploded from the sheer nonsense...

How can they even make such a claim? For a cosmetic product even?

I can see in casual talk some bozo getting confused and thinking a cream that (claims, anyway, that it) can smooth out your wrinkles, including those caused aging, caused by DNA, into "smoothing your genetically wrinkled DNA", but for an advertisement to promote that is sheer jail time worthy.


Reminds me of that muscular pony-tail guy, forget his name, who was pushing his own pasta maker in an infomercial, and started by looking at a package of store-bought pasta and saying something like, "Riboflavin! Niacin! What is this stuff?!?!?"

 

[Careyp74]

I can see in casual talk some bozo getting confused and thinking a cream that (claims, anyway, that it) can smooth out your wrinkles, including those caused aging, caused by DNA, into "smoothing your genetically wrinkled DNA", but for an advertisement to promote that is sheer jail time worthy.


Reminds me of that muscular pony-tail guy, forget his name, who was pushing his own pasta maker in an infomercial, and started by looking at a package of store-bought pasta and saying something like, "Riboflavin! Niacin! What is this stuff?!?!?"

Sounds like Tony Little. Did he actually say that? :0

 

[EHocking]

I can see in casual talk some bozo getting confused and thinking a cream that (claims, anyway, that it) can smooth out your wrinkles, including those caused aging, caused by DNA, into "smoothing your genetically wrinkled DNA", but for an advertisement to promote that is sheer jail time worthy.

Google "wrinkle DNA cream" for more bizarre claims of creams working at the DNA level and "containing RNA".

I'm not surprised with my ignorance on the subjec, but "Wrinkled DNA" actually exists (or at least papers on the subject do).

 

[LarianLeQuella]

I'd almost be afraid to google that!

I'm not surprised with my ignorance on the subjec, but "Wrinkled DNA" actually exists (or at least papers on the subject do).

Now that I was aware of, but it has nothing to do with anyone's cosmetic appearance. I guess it's all part of the way woo tries to sound like non-woo. "Say something scientific sounding."

 

[Cuddles]

as long as they aren't trying to say it cures a disease, there is no laws against what they are saying.

Really? There certainly are in the UK. You're not allowed to lie in adverts. If you do, you get referred to the ASA and forced to take the adverts off the air. Sadly punishments don't tend to go any further than that, but I think they can issue fines as well.

 

[Careyp74]

Really? There certainly are in the UK. You're not allowed to lie in adverts. If you do, you get referred to the ASA and forced to take the adverts off the air. Sadly punishments don't tend to go any further than that, but I think they can issue fines as well.

Sorry, I was being a "stupid american" again. (that is what my wife calls me, when I forget that not everyone is from the US)

There are a lot of things you can get away with, as long as you include certain caveats. If you claim something gets rid of wrinkles, just say that your claim is not evaluated by the FDA, and you are OK.

Do they have the same rules for political adverts? Man, what a world that would be.