Former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha, who served under former President Biden, criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for suggesting he could identify children suffering from mitochondrial challenges just by encountering them in public settings.

“I’m sorry but what?” Jha wrote in a post on the social platform X, responding to a clip from an event in Texas.

“Our Health Secretary says that he sees kids at airports and can tell by their faces that they have mitochondrial challenges,” Jha continued.

“This is wacky, flat-earth, voodoo stuff people,” he added. “This is not normal.”

Kennedy made the controversial remarks in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) legislation alongside the HH

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