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Michael A. Woodley of Menie

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Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie, Younger aka Technical Heretic (1984–) is a eugenicist, ecologist and paranormalist who first proposed the batshit-crazy spiteful mutant hypothesis. Woodley argues "sociocultural conditions that disincentivize procreation" and "any thought process that leads to a group’s sub-replacement fertility" is a "spiteful mutation".Woodley has a history of promoting other pseudoscientific and fringe-science views, including cryptozoology, eugenics, hereditarianism and racialism; he's co-authored a book with a similar crank named Edward Dutton. He attended the London Conference on Intelligence and controversially sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Intelligence. He also reviews papers submitted to the OpenPsych pseudojournals. Despite his wealthy aristocratic background (and his YouTube videos which seem to show him living in a huge manor house or castle), Woodley begs for donations from his meagre following. In May 2019 Wo