It’s worth a minute or two to consider what causes and promotes medical naivety and quackery and what could remove it. DEFINING NAIVETY “Naivety” (also spelled naïvety and naiveté) is defined by Oxford dictionary as “Lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement.” Being naive means you are simply unaware of basic knowledge, likely because you’ve never read it, heard it, discussed it, studied it, or observed or experienced it. There is nothing morally wrong with being naive. Ignorance is not a sin. Humility and active inquiry are key to acknowledging and moving past a natural state of naivety. We start out …