John Oliver has previously shared his thoughts on U.S. health secretary RFK Jr., but in Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, he turned his attention to the Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement, criticizing both its advocates and their scientifically questionable concepts.

“It is infuriating that, for the first time in recent memory, there has been a true surge of support for a more pristine, healthier, and less corporate-dominated America — yet it’s manifested this way,” Oliver remarks. “It is entirely valid to desire a healthier America, and there are undeniably systemic issues with the nation’s health. However, these are simply not the answers.”

Oliver refers to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association concerning child mortality and illness, carried out by scholars from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of California’s Center for Healthier Children. The study features policy suggestions such as funding anti-poverty initiatives, expanding health insurance coverage, prioritizing primary care, and enacting firearm safety regulations, which Oliver emphasizes is “clearly quite distant from what this administration is pursuing.”

“Rather, they are dismantling the social safety net while amplifying voices that shift the health responsibility onto the individual,” Oliver concludes. “In its present state, MAHA is not aimed at restoring health to America. At its best, it serves to clean up the image of an administration that is doing the very opposite.”