EDX Medical Prostate Cancer Test -progress amid the gloom?

News that Cambridge-based Life Sciences group EDX Medical has launched very hopeful new test for the terrible scourge of prostate cancer would normally have us gushing for our three full paragraphs. [1] What’s not to like? It’s a marvellous new combination of multi-diagnostic parameters, now carefully integrated by the latest AI technologies. There will be large tests and scrupulous surveys. It’s some of the finest minds we have, putting their talents to the service of humankind, with potentially enormous capacity to improve the quality of life. And yet, tonight, we remain gloomy. Why?

A friend once went on one of those cruise holidays on a huge luxury ship of the sort you see tied up in places like Mallorca or Florida.* This one was indeed sailing west, to Florida from Southampton. At more than twenty five knots. And one morning he saw a child with its toy boat in the swimming pool. The kid was blowing and pushing quite hard and eventually got the little yacht to sail in the direction of the stern of the cruise line. (backwards to us landlubbers) And it occurred to him that, however hard the child pushed, the little yacht was still moving inexorably westwards, carried by the bigger boat it rested on.

There are some extremely intelligent, hard working and good people both at EDX and all over the world. In Universities, in research institutes and in marvellous little start up companies. But they are terribly few in number overall. Because as the world moves into hostile camps, competing now in trade, later in war, the overall course we follow is very different indeed. It seems that the worst elements of mankind- the angry, the stupid, the ignorant- far our number and outgun the EDX types. Write to us if you will dear readers and tell us we may be wrong. But we shall close with these lines from Matthew Arnold, available from the marvellous Poetry Foundation click [2] for full quote:

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

• way out of our league financially! Plus we get sea sick

[1]https://pressreleasehub.pa.media/article/new-super-test-for-prostate-cancer-developed-in-the-uk-by-edx-medical-38471.html

[2]https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43588/dover-beach

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