Cindy

I'm glad I have been away from the board this week, so that Brian, David, Gary, Markus, etc could all reply to you first. All of them are polite and nuanced in their approach and have covered the salient points.
I on the other hand am quite opinionated and outspoken with a professional & personal track record of acting and speaking right up to the line of Arrogance while hopefully not crossing it. The answer to your query as to why someone would post a link to the New York Time's article on mistakes with Radiation is quite simple: It is no good to stick our head in the sand nor be afraid of the truth.
I know this is a scary time, but what you need to be afraid of is NOT getting Radiation. I respectfully disagree with Brian that "the OCF family" is divided on this. I believe yours is a distinct minority voice if not a solitary one in advocating censorship of the bad things that can go wrong in our treatment.
On the other hand, your reaction is quite understandable. My caregiver wife shuddered when I showed her the original NYT article including the slide show and stated emphatically that she was so very glad that she did not know about this when I went for my 40 IMRT treatments and the computer kept crashing just like in the story. Please note that the poor patient had exactly the same diagnosis as I did: Base of Tongue cancer
In short, IMO, get the radiation. If you do not, and it comes back, you will for the rest of your life wonder and worry that you could have avoided it had you gotten radiation.
Letting an article like this dissuade you or even influence your decision is foolish to the extreme.
Charm