John Oliver pointed out that the media usually distorts what the studies say. He failed to flag the problem of junk science in high-prestige journals.

(Edit: I just re-watched his segment. He does talk about P-hacking and perverse incentives, which is at least a reasonable-size chunk of the problem, just not the failure mode for this particular study.)

I still agree with you, he did not place enough of the blame on scientists who are unable or unwilling to properly communicate the implications of their work.