‘Wait Wait—’ Fox News Host Stunned by Wild RFK Rant About Sperm Counts and Teenagers’ Testosterone

Fox News host Jesse Watters did a double-take when Trump Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. punctuated a wild rant about sperm with a dubiously-phrased factoid about teenagers and testosterone.

RFK Jr. was a guest on Tuesday night’s edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, during which he ran through a characteristically unproven (at best) assertions about health that included a nugget that caught the host’s attention — the claim that “an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man”:

WATTERS: Now, [Greg] Gutfeld made a point on The Five today. He said, when I was growing up, I ate Froot Loops for breakfast every day and I turned out just fine.

Now I would argue he turned out like a maniac. He’s hyperactive and deranged, but does he have a point? What are these food dyes actually doing to kids especially?

KENNEDY: Yeah. Well, if you look at the ingredients for a — for Fruit Loops 20 years ago, it was very, very different than it is today. And today, we use chemicals in Froot Loops that are banned in virtually every country in the world.

So, if you buy Froot Loops today in Canada, it is made with vegetable dyes. If you buy it here in the United States, it’s made with petroleum synthetics. And as I said in that clip, nobody wants to eat petroleum.

So, when we went to meet with the food companies, I said to my staff — you know, if they want to eat petroleum, they should put it in their food themselves at home. They shouldn’t be feeding it to Americans who without their knowledge, without their consent.

And today, we announced that we’re going to get it out of the food.

So, there are nine dyes, Jesse, two of them we’re going to ban immediately, Orange B and red dye 2. We’re going to accelerate the removal of red dye 3. So, we’re going to bring it down to under a year.

And the other six dyes, within 18 months, we hope to get them out of all the food. And that’s just the beginning.

I mean one of the problems is that the science about these additives has been systematically suppressed for 30 years because the industry has been running this agency, and we’re getting rid of all of those conflicts. We’ve gotten rid of most of them and we’re going to do real science.

And we’re going to do science precisely on the issues that American care about, making sure their kids are getting food that isn’t poison.

The food our kids are eating today is not really food. It’s food-like substances and some of it was made in petroleum refineries. And we need to give our kids real food again.

We’ve got the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world.

When my uncle was president, 3 percent of Americans had chronic disease. Today, it’s 60 percent. Seventy-four percent of our kids cannot qualify for military service.

We have fertility rates a — that are — are just spiraling. A teenager today, an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man. Sperm counts are down 50 percent. Girls are heading (ph) puberty at 6 years old.

(CROSSTALK)

WATTERS: Wait, wait, a— wait, an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man?

KENNEDY: That’s right, because the testosterone levels have dropped 50 percent from historic levels. And you know — and that is a problem and it’s an existential problem. But it’s only — that is only when we have obesity that is off the charts.

Again, when my uncle was president, we had about 11 percent of people at — kids at obesity. Today, 74 percent of Americans are obese or overweight.

And you know, in Japan, it’s 3 percent. So, you know, they — and that’s because they pay attention to what they’re feeding kids in school.

WATTERS: Yeah, the Japanese are very skinny, except for the sumo wrestlers. Those people, not so skinny.

Watch above via Jesse Watters Primetime.