The alter-ego of AlienistsCompendium.com is John Carbone, a graduate of the College of William & Mary (BA), the University of Virginia School of Medicine (MD), King College School of Business and Economics (MBA), and North Carolina Central University School of Law (JD). During daylight hours, he has tilted at windmills as director of mental health services for the state's prison system, while also maintaining a private forensic psychiatric practice. Carbone has published on topics as diverse as the American Civil War, the material culture of Phi Beta Kappa, and modern intellectual property rights in the biotech industry. His treatise on the (lack of) science behind psychiatric predictions of dangerousness was cited in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief. In his free time, he collects patent models, native American pottery, and interesting anatomic specimens for his cabinet of curiosities.