12 Facts About Glayde Whitney

Glayde D Whitney was an American behavioral geneticist and psychologist.

Glayde Whitney earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota, as well as his doctorate from there in 1966.

Glayde Whitney then enlisted in the United States Air Force and served until 1969.

Glayde Whitney subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, under Gerald McClearn and John C DeFries.

In 1970, Glayde Whitney was hired by Florida State University to represent behavioral genetics in the psychobiology program, where he stayed until his death at the age of 62 on January 8,2002, after contracting a severe cold that aggravated emphysema.

Glayde Whitney was the author of over 60 papers on the genetics of taste sensitivity in inbred mice.

Glayde Whitney was the president of the Behavior Genetics Association from 1994 to 1995.

Glayde Whitney was a frequent contributor to magazines such as Mankind Quarterly, The g Factor Newsletter, and The William McDougall Newsletter.

Glayde Whitney wrote the foreword for My Awakening, an autobiography by David Duke, a white nationalist politician and former National Director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Glayde Whitney did not specifically endorse Duke's re-segregation plan, but described Duke as "a Moses-like prophet".

Glayde Whitney compared Duke to Socrates, Galileo, and Newton and said the NAACP and other "front organisations" had been created to further Jewish interests.

Glayde Whitney was a member of the Institute for Historical Review, an organization promoting Holocaust revisionism, making a case that Jews invented the Holocaust for their own benefit.