"Yesterday, the Trump administration announced plans to make IVF more affordable. At the press conference, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made some now-viral remarks that I can only describe as "bonkers." RFK Jr. said, "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65-year-old man.""
"RFK has made similar claims in the past, and there is (shocker) no factual evidence to support them. Okay, next, let's look at his (also unproven) claim that girls are hitting puberty six years early. In fact, a study published last year found that girls born between 2000 and 2005 got their periods an average of six months earlier than girls born between 1950 and 1969."
The Trump administration announced plans to make IVF more affordable. Viral remarks claimed the average teenager has 50% of the sperm count and 50% of the testosterone of a 65-year-old man, and that girls are hitting puberty six years early. Those claims have no factual evidence and repeat previous unproven assertions. A peer-reviewed study found girls born between 2000 and 2005 experienced menarche about six months earlier than girls born between 1950 and 1969, not six years earlier. The difference between the claims and the evidence underscores a gap between rhetoric and published research.
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