Blind spot

Calling himself the "Junk Science Debunker," Alex Berezow is a microbiologist and the VP of Science Communications at the American Council on Science and Health. But he contributed something quite different, not science, at USAToday two years ago. 

His grandmother grew up in Ukraine when it was part of the USSR. She would check her family members every morning to see if any had died in the night during the mass starvation implemented by USSR leader Joseph Stalin. 

Alex hears CNN and others praise socialism as being "cool" but his family history tells him a different story. It frustrates him that many Americans may know about Nazi crimes but are ignorant about Soviet (USSR) crimes.

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He says, "It is still fashionable for intellectuals — particularly those in the cozy confines of academia who never had to suffer under it — to praise the virtues of socialism. This white-washed version of history is a moral blind spot . . ."

From USAToday
(cont'd tomorrow)