Vice 5x28 - Post-Truth News &amp: Microbiome

":Post-Truth News": - The U.S. is more divided acrossparty lines than ever before in recent American history, andnowhere are these divisions more visible than in our media.With President Trump waging a war on mainstream news outletsand the rise of hyperpartisan sites spreading misinformation,trust in the traditional press has fallen to a record low of32%. VICE Correspondent Isobel Yeung looks at what's drivingthe media's battle over facts and the polarization of theAmerican public in the Trump era. "Microbiome" -Powerful antibiotics and widespread sanitation practices haveexpanded lifespans across the industrialized world. But theyhave also come at a cost. Our microbiomes, or the trillions ofmicrobes collectively working in our bodies to help regulateour immune system and food digestion, have lost much of itshealth-promoting bacteria because of our modern lifestyles andsanitation practices. Scientists across the world are nowlooking to the planet's few remaining pre-industrializedsocieties to see what industrialized guts have lost - and indoing so, could fundamentally change the way scientists thinkabout germs. Thomas Morton heads to the Central AfricanRepublic to see this emerging field of microbiome science.