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2026-04-04 Science & Technology

Expert blames phones as a driving factor for the declining birth rate that Elon Musk warns could lead to human extinction

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-04 05:55|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1755 views ] Top

1 The Blaze - Fertility has a silent assassin — and it’s everywhere. After a decades-long decline, America is now in the throes of the worst fertility crisis in our nation’s history. A record number of people are not having children.

The big question is why?

Certainly the answer is multifaceted, but there’s one undeniable driver behind America’s as well as nearly every other country’s declining birth rates, says Lyman Stone, senior fellow and director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies: the iPhone.

On this episode of “Rufo & Lomez,” Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman speak with Stone about how our most pervasive technology is wrecking the world’s fertility numbers.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-04 06:01|| 2026-04-04 06:01|| Front Page Top

2 Obviously, none of these a$$holes studied history - because decline in birth rates is a mark of highly developed societies.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-04-04 06:21|| 2026-04-04 06:21|| Front Page Top

3 Would someone please investigate that ringing noise, it could be a telephone.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-04 06:36|| 2026-04-04 06:36|| Front Page Top

4 Indirectly. Social media driven on the phones has exposed the thoughts and thinking of females 18-30 and its largely seen as toxic. Males are doing a personal cost analysis and have determined its a losing game and have elected to sit it out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-04-04 07:02|| 2026-04-04 07:02|| Front Page Top

5 Ask the koalas.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-04 07:47|| 2026-04-04 07:47|| Front Page Top

6 "The United Nations...."

I stopped right there.

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-04-04 09:43|| 2026-04-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

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