Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

Do they mean to say, that though unauthentical, it is good enough for the masses of the people?

The receivers were eventually destroyed and the plasmatic life forms escaped into the atmosphere, taking the receivers' energy with them.

Next stop was the host spot on a voyeuristic reality show that fed hungry mainstream audiences showfuls of ever more exotic deviances.