“Ignoring the Elephant in the Room”: Matt Interviews Simul About Discourse in Rad Onc

The Accelerators (Drs. Matt Spraker and Simul Parikh) discuss critique versus negativity, why Simul quit social media, Student Doctor Network, and engaging in discourse about Radiation Oncology.

This episode is a companion to an episode we recorded in December, but Matt initially decided to hold it back. The episode is a strong, journal club style critique of payer policy article published by the IJROBP that we feel should be retracted.

We encourage you to listen to our "almost lost" episode and additionally read Mark Storey's amazing rebuttal to the IJROBP publication.  

Here we discuss how this contributed to Simul leaving social media, why we initially held back the episode, critique, misanthropy, and our mission for open discussion in Radiation Oncology. 

Here are some links to things we discuss in the episode:

• SDN Thread "Screenshotting Simul"
• A Wikipedia article on Preference Falsification
• Out.Of.The.Basement podcast on the ASTRO "collaboration letter" and propaganda
• Edward Bernays, an American pioneer in public relations and propaganda

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