"What I really hate about it are the charlatans peddling false hope to ill people and cashing in on misery."

I guess Boots realised they could be accused of precisely that so to preserve their corporate respectability they decided to admit it.

Of course, they know that desperate people won't believe them and will continue to buy the stuff. So now they are self-confessed profit seekers peddling what they ADMIT is false hope to ill people and cashing in on misery.