Thalidomide is an infamous teratogen. Women can be exposed to this substance while trying to control nausea during pregnancy. Thalidomide was given (mostly in the late fifties) as a medication to control the nausea (it was removed from the market in 1961). Thalidomide causes severe malformation risks to a developing fetus.
adjective. The definition of naive is being immature, unaware or overly trusting. An example of naive is someone who believes that the moon is made of cheese because their mother said it was.
Excellent article! Being naive in this sense means thinking outside of the realm of acceptable business practices (or dinosaur thinking) depending on how you look at it. I also liked the fact that the importance of treating your employees well was included.