The Unthinkable w/ Dr. William Aprill

Nemo said:

No response to post #2 in this thread. Detail on his qualifications? Those go a long way to making education and training as worthwhile, not calculating cost factors into it.

Nemo

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I did come across this from a 2016 LSU Conference. It mentions Mr. Aprill as a LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. There's no mention of him being a doctor, whether MD, PhD, or other Dr. Further down the page, there are others who are PhD, as well as LCSW.

http://www.chseproed.com/events/201...peakers-101ab528807b42f69a52f1d7da6f72ee.aspx

On NPIdb.org, the National Provider ID Database, lists him as a LCSW-BACS. The BACS is a Board Approved Clinical Supervisor. This designation allows him to oversee the licensure of LMSW, Licensed Master Social Workers. But no mention of a doctoral degree.

That's not to minimize the training in any way. I have not heard of him prior to this, and he may offer great training. I was just curious as to Nemo's question about his background as a Dr. There is not much easy to find info about him as a clinician. Most of what I found was related to his seminars that he has taught. I also noted that nowhere on his website nor anything about his practice in LA is he referred to as a Dr. Some of the agencies or groups that have hosted his training & seminars have referred to him as Dr. William Aprill.

As far as his LEO experience, I saw a couple of different places that talk about his years spent as a Deputy Sheriff & a Special Deputy US Marshall. It also lists him as a decorated competitive shooter & an instructor in various fighting skills.
http://www.mdtstraining.com/william-aprill/

Does that help any, Nemo?

I question it because sometimes it necessary to question an expert on those things. Once I was deposing a PhD regarding the cause of an accident. He rejected my plaintiffs statements on that. Deep digging in the question of his credentials showed he was a Psy.D. (not MD) and had no advanced level education or training in any kind of engineering, physics, friction and tires and medical impact of bones on doors and and how hard cars hit each other at varying speeds, speed determination, sight distances and reflex time while driving and all that kind of stuff.

Our demand of policy limits ($500K) was proffered by defense counsel shortly after that depo was taken.

I bet that insurer and defense attorney never used that "expert" again.

He probably made the "code ultra secret never use this one" insurance company list of experts.

Nemo said:

I question it because sometimes it necessary to question an expert on those things. Once I was deposing a PhD regarding the cause of an accident. He rejected my plaintiffs statements on that. Deep digging in the question of his credentials showed he was a Psy.D. (not MD) and had no advanced level education or training in any kind of engineering, physics, friction and tires and medical impact of bones on doors and and how hard cars hit each other at varying speeds, speed determination, sight distances and reflex time while driving and all that kind of stuff.

Our demand of policy limits ($500K) was proffered by defense counsel shortly after that depo was taken.

I bet that insurer and defense attorney never used that "expert" again.

He probably made the "code ultra secret never use this one" insurance company list of experts.

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Been there, done that on the other end. Never take a case you aren't actually a legitimate expert on. Pretty simple. Of course I've never met a PsyD that knew that little fact of life.

You should read the Special Master's report in the Autism and Vaccines case. The summary of the experts for and against is priceless. Those that claim autism is caused by vaccines were characterized as being evasive about their credentials and when pressed most had irrelevant credentials, like someone talking about biochemistry that insisted on being called Dr. but their doctorate was in Literature. Several PsyDs apparently never had a lab course in chemistry but were offering opinions about mechanisms of action of the vaccines causing Autism. The experts that said it didn't were people with PhDs from places like MIT, Stanford, etc. in Biochemistry, virology, etc. Kinda a huge contrast when looked at from the credentials standpoint.