A hi-tech health prediction that I could do without | Medical research

The new artificial intelligence tool which can predict the risk of a person of 1,000 diseases fills me with apprehension (report, September 17). If, let’s say, the tool provides that I have 30% chance of suffering from a horrible condition in the next five years, I do not know if it would be good news or bad news.
Sam White
Lewes, East Sussex
Bringing back the dodo is interesting (scientists claim to have done “not charming” to bring back the dodo for the first time in 300 years, September 17), but perhaps vain with Homo sapiens“Insistence to destroy the planet. It is much better to resuscitate Homo neanderthalensisAccording to all, a more cooperative and less aggressive hominid.
Patrick Cosgrove
Bucknell, Shropshire
Re the extreme right co-opting the flag of Saint George (Report, September 14), can I suggest a campaign “Reclaim the Flag”? This could involve a heart drawn on the center of the flag to represent the tolerant values of the vast majority of the inhabitants of Great Britain.
LIZ CONMY
Oxford
In Bury, a cotton city in Lancashire, the equivalent sign to give the way (letters, September 14) was “weaving now”.
Carol hatred
Yealmpton, Devon
The visit of Donald Trump’s state, the irony of his administration is that the majority of those who emigrated to the United States have done so to escape the type of government he establishes.
Geoffrey COBB
Deal, Kent
Donald Trump’s 51st state visit?
Alan Barnes
Congleton, Cheshire



