- Among others, the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto cited Michael Woodley, a 38 year-old British researcher affiliated with one of Belgium’s leading universities (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
- Woodley has claimed that France’s declining average IQ derives from rising North African migrants and he’s proposed links between ethnicity and intelligence.
- The Buffalo shooter’s manifesto cited Woodley’s claim that humans can be divided into racial subspecies, a pseudoscientific theory historically used to justify racism.
- Vrije Universiteit suspended Woodley shortly after the shooting.
