Topic: 1897

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Alex Jones reads a New York Times article from December 1897 describing "active vaccination wars" in Atlanta, Georgia, where police forced vaccinations on the Black population. He links this historical event to the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and the origins of Planned Parenthood as eugenics-based organizations. Jones argues that the medical establishment has a long history of using "health departments" as fronts for waging war on the poor.