Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

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{{cquote|Were I an attorney, and a [[pedophile]] were charged with a crime (pedophilia is not a crime!), I might defend one... The [[ACLU]] has defended [[Nazis]] and other groups widely considered reprehensible, as action protecting civil liberties. [[Civil liberties]] are not just for those with politically correct or popular views, but for everyone, and if it becomes an offense to defend the unpopular, democracy is in double trouble.|||Abd Lomax in 2018<ref>[http://archive.ph/mFFbq Emails]. Cold Fusion Community.</ref>}}

{{cquote|[[Satan]] is very real. Beware.|||Abd Lomax in 2023<ref name="Satan">[https://archive.ph/59aID Abd Lomax on Reddit]</ref>}}

'''Abd ul-Rahman Lomax''' {{lived|1944|2024}},<ref name="Biography"/><ref name=lesswrong>[http://lesswrong.com/user/Abd/ Abd Profile] "Born in 1944, Abd ul-Rahman is not my birth name, I accepted Islam in 1970. Not being willing to accept pale substitutes, I learned to read the Qur'an in Arabic by reading the Qur'an in Arabic."</ref> born as '''Dennis George Lomax'''<ref name="Obituary">[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/dennis-lomax-obituary?id=54921388 Dennis George Lomax]. legacy.com. [https://archive.ph/7nraw Archived].</ref><ref>Known on [[RationalWiki]] as '''[[User:Abd]]'''</ref><ref>Also known for a time as Daniel Lomax. [http://archive.ph/Ffmcb]</ref><ref>[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/27215121/Lomax_v_WikiMedia_Foundation,_Inc_et_al Lomax v. WikiMedia Foundation, Inc. et al] ''PacerMonitor''.</ref> and known on [[Reddit]] as '''Abd Lomax''',<ref>https://www.reddit.com/user/Abdlomax/</ref> was an [[United States|American]] [[Abd_ul-Rahman_Lomax#Offensive_views_on_pedophilia_and_child_pornography|pedophilia apologist]], suspected [[pedophile]], diagnosed [[schizophrenic]], [[flat earth]] debater and internet forum [[spam]]mer.<ref name="spam">[https://archive.ph/6Qulf Abd Lomax banned for spam].</ref> Lomax was banned from numerous websites for his controversial views on [[pedophilia]] and his defense of [[Nathan Larson]] who was charged with child abduction and child pornography offences.<ref name="WOVigilant">[https://archive.ph/VMWa7 WOVigilant] "It is not clear that any records are available. I was, however, as I recall, confronting Vigilant about his accusations of pedophilia or pedophilia defense. I tend to write long posts, because I include evidence, not merely the short snappy sound bites which Wikipediots tend to like. I was banned there without warning or notice."</ref> Lomax controversially claimed that [[hebephilia]] (sexual preference for pubescent children typically aged 11-14) is "more or less normal".<ref>https://archive.fo/rS5gX</ref> He  argued that the [[Qur'an]] supports [[child marriage]] and he had no problem with adults marrying children.<ref name="Lomax on Reddit"/>

Lomax was notorious for holding [[conspiracy theory]] views and supported [[pseudoscience]] and [[fad diet|fad diets]]. He was notably a [[cholesterol denialist]] and a proponent of pseudoscientific [[cold fusion]] although he argued against flat earth. He was terminally online and used to debate these things on internet forums getting into heated arguments for countless hours. He was a highly disruptive figure on message-boards and had a bad reputation for [[trolling]], email-spoofing and [[spam]].<ref name="spammer">[https://archive.ph/kcySk Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/YY4DU Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/LRGmS Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/5Gfz3 Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref> He was banned on many forums and [[wikis]], including [[Wikipedia]],<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Abd Abd on Wikipedia]</ref> Wikipediocracy,<ref>[https://archive.ph/mmQ7Z Abd Archive]</ref> [[RationalWiki]],<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Abd Abd on RationalWiki]</ref> Wikiversity,<ref>[https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Abd Abd on Wikiversity]</ref> Meta-Wiki,<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Abd Abd on Meta-Wiki]</ref> [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]],<ref>[http://archive.ph/yW5ML User:Abd]. Encyclopedia Dramatica.</ref> LENR forum<ref name="LENR">[https://archive.ph/DhJIe Commentary: Lenr-forum.com]. "I have been “permanently banned” on lenr-forum.com, a major LENR discussion site."</ref> and various [[Reddit]] boards.

In February 2019, Lomax filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for publicizing the ban of his username Abd. The lawsuit was dismissed in June 2020.<ref name="Wikimedia">[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14573324/lomax-v-wikimedia-foundation-inc/ Lomax v. WikiMedia Foundation, Inc.(3:19-cv-30025-MGM)]</ref> 

Much of Lomax's bizarre online behaviour can be explained by his schizophrenia diagnosis. In 2023 he admitted he had experienced [[Schizophrenia|psychotic episodes]] in the past including  experiencing "real [[miracle]]s" and hearing voices.<ref name="schizophrenic">https://archive.ph/xKoGg</ref><ref name="Crazy">[https://archive.ph/Ro8pW Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>

Despite claiming he was going to live to 95 or even 100, Lomax died in April 2024, aged 79.<ref name="Obituary"/>

== Personal life ==

===Education===

Lomax claimed to have studied undergraduate [[physics]] at the California Institute of Technology; he had no degree. He admitted he never "graduated from any college or university."<ref name="Biography">[http://coldfusioncommunity.net/biography-abd-ul-rahman-lomax/ Biography: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]. Cold Fusion Community.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Experts/Abd_ul-Rahman_Lomax Cold fusion/Experts/Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]</ref> However, he wrote on websites he attended Cal Tech lectures, studying with [[Richard Feynman]] (1961-1963), further that he had knowledge of physics.<ref>[https://www.quora.com/profile/Abd-Ul-Rahman-Lomax Abd Ul-Rahman Lomax, Sat with Richard P. Feynman, 1961-63. I know a *little* about Physics.]</ref><ref>[http://coldfusioncommunity.net/biography-abd-ul-rahman-lomax/I sat with Richard P. Feynman at Cal Tech 1961-63, in the “Feynman Lectures]</ref><ref>[https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Experts/Abd_ul-Rahman_Lomax As an undergraduate student at the California Institute of Technology, I studied physics with Richard P. Feynman].</ref><ref>[http://lesswrong.com/user/Abd/ I was at Cal Tech for a couple of years, being in Richard P. Feynman's two years of undergraduate physics classes.]</ref> He also claimed to have taken [[Linus Pauling]]'s freshman [[chemistry]] class.<ref name=lesswrong/> Despite, or perhaps because of this, Lomax had previously asserted that formal teachings were unnecessary for him, because he was able to "learn by writing".<ref>[https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/3362-have-ih-let-their-e-cat-license-lapse-by-inaction/?postID=26006#post26006 I learn by writing]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20180110085550/https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/3362-have-ih-let-their-e-cat-license-lapse-by-inaction/?postID=26006#post26006 Archived]).</ref>

In September 2023, Lomax was still name dropping Richard P. Feynman on [[Reddit]], and mentioned that he studied under him but conveniently left out he never graduated and had no degree. 

{{quotebox|I do understand physics, and studied it wit the foremost physicist of his time, at Cal Tech, and I’m not shaky on this point.<ref>[https://archive.ph/0STKI Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

{{quotebox|I learned the methods of science from Richard P. Feynman, personally, at Cal Tech, in 1961-63. Does that mean that I am right? No, but I suggest looking at evidence that I adduce. I am not the Judge of Reality, but Reality is the Judge of me.<ref>[https://archive.ph/R8xxX Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

===Family and friends===

Lomax was divorced seven times. He claimed that four of his marriages were not legally registered.<ref>[https://archive.ph/lMpIs I am 22 and I neither had girlfriend nor had a sex. What should I do?]. Abd Lomax.</ref>

Lomax's daughter Zippy Lomax, a photographer from Portland is a [[Black Lives Matter]] (BLM) activist. In August 2020, Zippy Lomax's rear window was smashed and her tires were slashed by Portland Police at a BLM rally.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDe6W9_APNU Portland police smash window, slash tires of woman’s Prius during protest]</ref><ref>[http://archive.vn/xE8ca Portland police smash window, slash tires of woman’s Prius during protest dustup (video)]</ref><ref name="Police">[http://archive.vn/CjhCE Portland woman says police slashed her car tires, broke window during protest]</ref> In a press release, police officers said the car was a hazard and “interfering with their attempts to safely move people out of the road.” Zippy Lomax has stated she plans to file a complaint against the officers and take other legal action.<ref name="Police"/>

Lomax said that he personally knew [[Charles Manson]].<ref>[http://archive.vn/0K7FP Help me expose a cult that scam people and makes them abandon their children!!!]. Reddit.</ref>

===Schizophrenia===

Lomax was a diagnosed schizophrenic who was hospitalized and claimed to hear voices.<ref name="schizophrenic"/> He claimed that his "mother was a paranoid catatonic schizophrenic" who was hospitalized and received shock therapy.<ref>[https://archive.ph/bfYVs Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref> Lomax said he inherited schizophrenia from his mother:

{{quotebox|Since I inherited schizophrenia from my mother, I understand how they think, I have been there. I learned to distinguish between the thoughts that occur to me, which is overactive human instinct to recognize even subtle patterns, exactly what is being demonstrated here.<ref>[https://archive.ph/aLe7h Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

Lomax's considered himself "batshit crazy".

{{quotebox|I am batshit crazy. Why not? I’ve been there, done that. My mother was a paranoid catatonic schizophrenic, treated with shock therapy, which, as horrific as it was, sometimes worked. It is heritable. It is “stupid,” only in that what is believed is created by the mind with no actuality behind it. In my case, triggered by LSD, fifty years ago, learning to maintain ego loss for days, I came down with the help of another resident of the hospital who was quite sane, so why was here there... I learned that my thoughts were just reactive voices, not to be believed but perhaps investigated. Sometimes they were intuition, sometimes actual lies. Yes, we tell ourselves lies, ask any addict who has come to know themselves, and I have heard thousands of stories.<ref name="Crazy"/>}}

== Religious views ==

=== Islam ===

Lomax converted to [[Islam]] in 1970 after he alleged to hear "the voice of [[God]]".<ref>[http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/NeuhausIslam3.phpA Christian-Muslim Exchange: Islamic Encounters — Part 3 ]</ref><ref name=lesswrong/> and claims to have "become a leader of a spiritual community"<ref>[http://lesswrong.com/user/Abd/ I became a leader of a "spiritual community," and a successor to a well-known teacher, Samuel L. Lewis] </ref> as a successor to a popular [[New Age]] mystic [[Sufism|Sufi]] named {{wpl|Samuel L. Lewis}}. As is customary for converts to Islam, Lomax changed his name, taking a Muslim first name. The name he took, Abd ul-Rahman means "''servant of the most gracious''".<ref>{{wpa|Abd al-Rahman}}</ref> His legal and birth name was Dennis George Lomax.<ref name="Biography" /><ref name=lesswrong /> 

Between 1978-1979 Lomax was a member of the Tucson branch of the Islamic [[Murabitun World Movement]], an extremist Sufi sect.<ref name="abd31197">soc.religion.islam, January 31, 1997: [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.religion.islam/1JYeVLCGgLM/dddQZFcNOncJ Who are the Murabitun?] ([http://archive.ph/XSD1w Archive snapshot])</ref> While a member of the sect, Lomax associated with Abdalqadir as-Sufi, the sect's extreme right wing founder and noted [[antisemite]], Lomax helped him publish books.<ref name="abd31197"/> He was asked to leave the sect in unclear circumstances in 1980. Lomax distanced himself from the sect, and later described it as a "shady [[cult]]",<ref>[https://muamallat.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/warning-about-a-shady-cult-murabitun-and-ian-dallas/ Warning about a Shady Cult: Murabitun and Ian Dallas]. ([http://archive.ph/gdll1 Archive snapshot])</ref> even though he claimed to still be on good terms with Abdalqadir.<ref name="abd28217">Coldfusioncommunity.net; Abd ul-Rahman Lomax, February 28, 2017: [http://coldfusioncommunity.net/and-abds-favorite-topic/ And Abd’s favorite topic]. ([http://archive.ph/uMG2r Archive snapshot])</ref>

During the 1990s,<ref>soc.religion.islam, Abdullah, November 11, 2004: [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.religion.islam/lEdqDPIvtWg/9ua9Sdb8EdoJ Where is Mr. AbdulRahman Lomax?] ([http://archive.ph/o2AOY Archive snapshot]</ref> Lomax was a regular on the [[Usenet]] newsgroup soc.religion.islam.<ref>Matthew Smith, August 22, 2004: [http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2004/08/22/othman_the_italian_resurfaces Othman the Italian resurfaces]. ([http://archive.ph/gClRZ Archive snapshot])</ref> Lomax claims to be a moderator of the newsgroup.<ref name="abd28217" /> He posted voluminously on the subject of Islamic teachings and the sect he was formerly a member of, which he described as a cult, but claimed that was an objective description and not meant with negative connotations.<ref>soc.religion.islam; various, 1997: [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.religion.islam/upEOfw_x4BI/dHWZ4KdiF2EJ Cultic behavior amongst Muslims]. ([http://archive.ph/hLnFm Archive snaphot])</ref> After leaving Usenet, Lomax became active on [[Quora]], posting similarly.<ref>[https://www.quora.com/profile/Abd-Ul-Rahman-Lomax Lomaxs Quora profile]</ref>

=== Qur'an ===

Lomax did not take a literal reading of the [[Qur'an]] but called himself "Qur'an-centric". He said that the Qur'an was "partly metaphorical" and should not be used as science book. He also claimed that the "Hadith are generally untrustworthy" and the stories in the Hadith are not meant to be taken literally.<ref>[https://archive.ph/t4nqz Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>

What was literal and metaphorical in the Qur'an was entirely subjective for Lomax and he argued on Reddit about interpretation of different verses.

{{quotebox|I was Qur'an-centric, probably before you were born. I am not and have never been a "quranist," because of people like you, who carelessly lie about what is and is not in the Qur'an. Where does it say what you claim? I've seen this argument from people who actually cited the verse, which did not say -- and certainly not "clearly" -- what you have ascribed to it.<ref name="Lomax on Reddit"/>}}

=== Numeric miracles in the Qur'an ===

Lomax did not deny the possibility of [[miracle]]s but disputed the claims of Rashad Khalifa regarding numeric miracles in the Qur'an.<ref>[https://bahai-library.com/lomax_number_nineteen_quran The Number 19 in the Qur'an]. Bahá'í Library Online.</ref><ref>[http://www.answering-islam.org/Religions/Numerics/lomax.html bismillAhi r-raHmAni r-raHiym].</ref>

Concerning Khalifa, Lomax wrote:

{{quotebox|"Dr. Khalifa’s claims, at best, fall into the category of pious fraud. … Had [[God]] intended the [[Qur'an]] to carry a code verifying its perfect preservation, he could have done it much more effectively and simply than the complex, arbitrary, and inconclusive 'code' claimed by Dr. Khalifa.<ref name="Gardner">Gardner, Martin. (2000). ''Did Adam and Eve Have Navels''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 260-261. [http://archive.ph/2j9L6 Online].</ref>}}

He was also involved in a long internet debate with Edip Yuksel on numeric miracles in the Quar'an. The debate was printed in book format in 1995 and republished in 2012.<ref>Yuksel, Edip. (2012). ''Running Like Zebras''. Braionbow Press. {{Isbn|978-0982586730}}</ref> According to critics, Lomax was notorious for ''[[Argumentum ad hominem|ad hominem]]''.<ref>[http://archive.ph/E4YlW#selection-1009.0-1011.0 Personal Attacks from Daniel Lomax].</ref>

=== Martin Gardner ===

Lomax's skepticism about numerical miracles was positively cited in a book by [[Martin Gardner]].<ref name="Gardner"/> Lomax cited Gardner on websites to prevent himself from being labelled as a [[pseudo-science|pseudo-scientist]] for his unorthodox views about [[cold fusion]].<ref>[http://lesswrong.com/user/Abd/ Abd Profile at LessWrong]. (http://archive.ph/DQiBq Archived). "As to rational skepticism, I was known to Martin Gardner, who quoted a study of mine on the so-called Miracle of the Nineteen in the Qur'an, the work of Rashad Khalifa, whom I knew personally."</ref> However, what this actually shows is an example of [[stopped clock]].

===God===

{{cquote|I have strong evidence for trusting that God created the heavens and the earth, and that he made the earth round through the attraction he decreed for all mass, and he spread the sky with stars for our guidance and taught us how to use them, and for whatever purpose known best to him. I’ve concluded you are a troll, and trolls get the last word.|||Abd Lomax arguing on [[Reddit]].<ref name="Reddit">[https://archive.ph/zwuDy Abd Lomax]. Reddit.</ref>}}

Lomax held contradictory ideas about God. One of his favourite claims that he said for over twenty years on the internet was that "God is reality".

{{quotebox|God is Reality itself, distinct from ideas about reality.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/13crd38/what_exactly_is_god/jjhih7i/ Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

{{quotebox|My God is Reality itself, without conditions, no matter what.<ref>https://archive.ph/uTDqh</ref>}}

{{quotebox|My faith is in Reality, a name and quality of God, not in some organization.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/flatearth/comments/134bzp4/flat_earth_irony/jigcokz/ Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

You would expect Lomax to have been a [[pantheist]] with this view but he believed in an anthropomorphic deity that could curse, forgive and reward people. 

{{quotebox|God is Reality and his curse is on the liars, for them is a painful doom, unless they repent.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/flatearth/comments/126tq4s/sorry_i_just_noticed_this_in_milsurs_post_and_its/jebc7lx/ Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

{{quotebox|I ask that God forgive your errors and reward you for the best of what you do.<ref>https://archive.ph/L9UgZ</ref>}}

{{quotebox|If you trust in Reality and act according, God has promised you will be safe.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/progressive_islam/comments/1311as0/why_does_god_care_about_polytheism/jhzg0vo/ Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

Lomax rejected science and believed that God created the "heavens and the earth", so he believed in a personal deity and also claimed to have seen miracles.<ref name="Reddit"/><ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/flatearth/comments/135w15p/this_is_my_problem_with_people_who_know_think_the/jjo65rb/ Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref> However, Lomax admitted to having [[schizophrenia]] and accepted that some of the "real miracles" he experienced were illusions.<ref name="schizophrenic"/>

===Voice from God===

Lomax claimed he heard "the voice of God". Despite all this, Lomax criticizes others for "anthropomorphis[ing] God".<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/progressive_islam/comments/12ete1h/why_does_allah_want_everyoneeverything_to_worship/jfdf2dt/ Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref> Like other religious fanatics, Lomax avoided talking about the [[problem of evil]].

Lomax said that after asking a question, God told him "The choice is yours":

{{quotebox|But God has said that it is my choice, so my choice is not in opposition to God.

God has only spoken to me once. I was looking for an answer to what her ot not I should accept being drafted. I sat silently oh a beach watching the sun set, and then I heard a “still small voice,” with what seemed to manifest infinite calm and wisdom.

'''The choice is yours.'''

That proved to be true. I have never heard that voice again. What more would I want? The character of the voice, I recognized in the Qur’an, once I was reading it in Arabic. I trusted what I was told and it proved true. That was sixty years ago.<ref>[https://archive.ph/ZNMbd Abd Lomax claiming God spoke to him].</ref>}}

Lomax did not accept that the voice was the result of his schizophrenia and often repeated the story on Reddit in a weird attempt to prove that the Qur'an was true. He also claimed he was investigated by the [[FBI]] who dismissed his claim because he was crazy:

{{quotebox|I heard a quiet voice, “The choice is yours.” I recognized this as truth, and it changed my life. While the process went this way and that, it ended up that this was absolutely true, the choice was mine. Making a CO claim, the FBI investigated and concluded that the claim was bogus because I was crazy, and therefore eligible for the draft.<ref>[https://archive.ph/dtgVe Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

===Satan===

Lomax believed that [[Satan]] was real.<ref name="Satan"/> In June 2023, he commented:

{{quotebox|One of Satan’s favorite tricks is to get people believing that others are his minions. Nobody is exempt from his whisperings.<ref>[https://archive.ph/G3DOI DebateFlatEarth]</ref>}}

Lomax's belief in Satan as a personal being that deceived people is logically inconsistent with his belief that God was reality.

== Pseudoscience ==
=== Cold fusion ===
{{main|Cold fusion}}

Lomax was the owner of the pseudoscientific "Infusion Institute" which he formed in December, 2013.<ref>[http://coldfusioncommunity.net/what-is-infusion-institute/ What is Infusion Institute?]</ref> It is not a recognized scientific institute, he was the only member. In 2015, he wrote a paper arguing for [[cold fusion]] that was published in the [[peer-review]]ed journal ''Current Science''.<ref>Lomax, Abd ul-Rahman. (2015). [http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/04/0574.pdf ''Replicable cold fusion experiment: heat/helium ratio'']. Current Science 108 (4): 574-577. (Also check [http://archive.ph/2af3e Archive] if link is offline).</ref><ref>[http://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/auth.php?authid=46998&author=Lomax,%20Abd%20ul-Rahman Articles written by Lomax, Abd Ul-Rahman]. Current Science.</ref>

According to Lomax:
{{quotebox|Cold fusion is real, and it is time that serious work is funded to study the conditions of cold fusion and other correlated effects, gathering the evidence needed to understand it.<ref>[http://archive.ph/2af3e Replicable cold fusion experiment: heat/helium ratio]. Archive.</ref>}}

At least one news report incorrectly described Lomax as a "physicist".<ref>[http://zeenews.india.com/news/sci-tech/cold-fusion-is-real-claim-scientists_1559235.html Cold fusion is real, claim scientists]. "We have direct evidence that the effect is real and is nuclear in nature," US physicist Abdul-Rahman Lomax of the Infusion Institute in Massachusetts says in his report."</ref> Lomax made a number of far-fetched claims, for example he stated that with further development "cold fusion could supply clean power for humanity indefinitely."<ref>[https://www.gofundme.com/cold-fusion-journalism Cold fusion journalism].</ref>

Lomax was the owner of Lomax Design Associates, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 2011 he gave a presentation at the pseudoscientific Cold Fusion/Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref>[http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/SwartzColloqPart2.pdf 2011 Cold Fusion/Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium]</ref> 

Lomax was not popular in the cold fusion community. He was banned from the LENR forum and complained on his website about his ban, blaming the administrators.<ref name="LENR"/>

=== Diet woo ===

{{cquote|Low-carb diets often fail if people are afraid of fat, which is common after forty years of propaganda. Fat is actually an essential nutrient, unlike carbohydrates.|||Abd Lomax<ref name="Lomax high fat">[https://archive.ph/ZDEYs Abd Lomax on his low carb high fat diet]</ref>}}

Lomax was a [[cholesterol denialist]] who argued that high LDL cholesterol levels did not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.<ref name=Low carb">[http://archive.ph/KCAr9/ Science and Medicine]. Cold Fusion Community.</ref><ref name="Labos">[http://archive.ph/vE4hT Labos]. Cold Fusion Community.</ref><ref name="Hell">[http://archive.ph/hzXRB Special Place in Hell]. Cold Fusion Community.</ref> He denied that there was a link between saturated fat consumption and increased blood cholesterol levels. He ate a low-carbohydrate high-fat (LCHF) meat-based diet and similar to other low-carb fanatics recommended high consumption of saturated fat. He also defended the dangerous [[carnivore diet]] and pseudoscientific ideas of [[Shawn Baker]]. "Baker knows his stuff", Lomax commented in 2019.<ref>[https://hypothes.is/users/Abd?page=2 Abd Lomax defending Shawn Baker]</ref>

Lomax spent years eating the [[Atkins diet]], which most of the medical community have rejected as a [[fad diet]].<ref name=Low carb"/><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Atkins_diet&diff=prev&oldid=10070547 Talk:Atkins diet]. Wikipedia.</ref> 

{{quotebox|On Atkins, not only did I lose weight rather efficiently, but I was now eating my favorite foods. When I was a kid, they would say to me, “Have some bread with your butter.” My favorite food, besides steak, was baked potato with butter and sour cream, emphasis on the last two.<ref name=Low carb"/>}}

{{quotebox|I was on a high-fat, low-carb diet and I would take chicken thighs, sprinkle them with grated Parmesan cheese, and broil them in a toaster oven until the cheese was browned and crisp, I think it was ten minutes. Then I would turn them over, add more cheese, and repeat. Sometimes the inside was a little bloody in places, but I never got diarrhea from years of doing this. It was delicious, and did not taste raw.<ref>[https://archive.ph/R8xxX Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

Lomax argued against low-fat and [[vegan]] diets. On his website he defended cholesterol denialists and low-carb promoters such as [[Malcolm Kendrick]] and [[Gary Taubes]].<ref name=Low carb"/><ref name="Hell"/> Lomax argued on his website (without providing evidence) that a high-fat diet would decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke. For example, Lomax said that "In spite of being high-fat, Atkins eaters improved cardiac risk factors".<ref name="Labos"/> He gave no peer-reviewed scientific evidence for this statement. 

Lomax said he was diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia in 1990 and with prostate [[cancer]] in 2007.<ref name=Low carb"/> In April 2020, Lomax had an ischemic stroke.<ref>[http://archive.ph/DhQml Lomax on Reddit]. "I had an ischemic stroke several weeks ago, and writing and editing are difficult for me. But it’s possible. I’m doing a lot of sudoku in my ample spare time. Better than watching TV."</ref><ref>[http://archive.ph/LC8rT My health status]. Reddit.</ref> High LDL cholesterol levels increase the risk of ischemic stroke.<ref>[https://strokefoundation.org.au/About-Stroke/Prevent-Stroke/High%20cholesterol High cholesterol]. Stroke Foundation.</ref> In 2021, Lomax had a heart attack. His arteries were blocked and he had a coronary stent and a cardiac monitor implanted.<ref>[https://archive.ph/7jXY6 news from the dead]</ref> In the last years of his life he resided at an extended care facility. After having his stroke and heart attack, Lomax insisted the reason for them was unknown and he still claimed saturated fat consumption did not increase the risk of heart disease. He said he ate a low-carb high fat diet in his care facility, including 3 eggs with cheese and cream everyday.<ref name="Lomax high fat"/><ref>[https://archive.ph/rmjpc How many eggs can I safely eat in a day? Is there any solid evidence regarding this? Is cholesterol harmful to cardiovascular health?]</ref>

In July 2023, Lomax had surgery for an infected kidney stone.<ref>https://archive.ph/7iaol</ref> In January 2024, he was promoting the Atkins diet on Reddit. Just over a week later on his own subreddit r/Abdlomax Lounge, he wrote: 

{{quotebox|In hospital ICU for 9 days, bladder and blood infection from kidney stone, almost died.<ref>[https://archive.ph/MiI9S Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

In February 2024, Lomax said he contracted a {{wpl|Clostridioides difficile infection}}.<ref>[https://archive.ph/eqmss Abd Lomax on Twitter]. Twitter.com.</ref> Lomax died in April 2024.<ref name="Obituary"/>

=== Parapsychology ===
{{main|Parapsychology}}

Lomax was supportive of research in parapsychology but claimed he was not a "believer" in the subject. He argued against skeptics who dismissed parapsychology as pseudoscientific and referred to skeptics of parapsychology as "[[pseudoskeptic]]s".<ref>[https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Parapsychology/Dispute_over_Scientific_Status/Abd Parapsychology/Dispute over Scientific Status/Abd]. Wikiversity. ([http://archive.ph/vgrjN Archive]).</ref><ref>[https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Parapsychology#Update_May_16.2C_2016 Update May 16, 2016]. Also check the [http://archive.ph/HS5ME Archive].</ref> Lomax argued that:
{{quotebox|'''Parapsychology is, by definition, a science'''.<ref>[http://archive.ph/HS5ME Archive]</ref>}}

The vast majority of scientists, however, consider it a pseudoscience.<ref>Friedlander, Michael W. (1998). ''At the Fringes of Science''. Westview Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-8133-2200-6 "Parapsychology has failed to gain general scientific acceptance even for its improved methods and claimed successes, and it is still treated with a lopsided ambivalence among the scientific community. Most scientists write it off as pseudoscience unworthy of their time."</ref><ref>Pigliucci, Massimo; Boudry, Maarten. (2013). ''Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem''. University Of Chicago Press p. 158. {{Isbn|978-0-226-05196-3}} "Many observers refer to the field as a "pseudoscience". When mainstream scientists say that the field of parapsychology is not scientific, they mean that no satisfying naturalistic cause-and-effect explanation for these supposed effects has yet been proposed and that the field's experiments cannot be consistently [[replicate]]d."</ref>

He worked with [[psychic]] [[Craig Weiler]] and his friend Ben Steigmann in promoting [[paranormal]] studies on Wikiversity. These studies were deleted in January, 2018.<ref>The [https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Parapsychology Parapsychology] articles on Wikiversity were written by [[Dean Radin]], Abd ul-Rahman Lomax, Ben Steigmann and [[Craig Weiler]] but were later deleted. Also see the archived [http://archive.ph/FwN90 Parapsychology] talk page. Wikiversity.</ref>

== Internet trolling ==

As an internet [[troll]], and [[cyber-bullying|cyber-harasser]], Lomax was infamous for disruption, trolling of admins, and posting of other editors [[doxing|personal information]]. He was banned from a number of forums and [[wikis]], including [[Wikipedia]], [[RationalWiki]], Wikiversity, Meta-Wiki,<ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Abd</ref> and [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].<ref>[http://archive.ph/yW5ML User:Abd]. Encyclopedia Dramatica.</ref>

He used his blog to attack administrators on websites he was banned from; mainly by weaponizing [[Google]] searches, so if someone searched a name — his blog would show up with ''[[ad hominem]]'', lies and smears written about them. Lomax' Rationalwiki account User:Abd was blocked during 2020, 9 years after he started editing. After being blocked from RationalWiki and Wikipedia, Lomax wrote thousands of words on his blog about his bans, continuing to attack more editors. 

In December 2017, Lomax was permanently blocked on Wikiversity for long-term disruption and misusing the site for his personal vendettas to harass other users.<ref>[https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/abd Abd Blocked]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20171231215726/https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/abd Archived]). "Wikiversity is not your personal podium: persistent long term disruption."</ref> In February 2018, he was globally banned by the Wikimedia Foundation.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abd User:Abd] "Abd has been banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing Wikimedia sites".</ref>

After being banned on practically every respectable wiki on the internet, Lomax became a troll poster on [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. However, in February 2019, even bottom feeder Encyclopedia Dramatica had enough of him and permanently banned Lomax for attacking other editors by creating defamatory articles about them.<ref>http://archive.ph/WiyJi</ref>

==Lomax v. WikiMedia Foundation, Inc.==

Lomax filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation in February, 2019 for publicizing the ban of his username. He also invoked an irrational conspiracy theory that a group of skeptical editors including several admins teamed up to ban his account and acted with "malice". The case was dismissed in June, 2020. Lomax's claims had no basis in fact and were based on "mere speculation".<ref name="Wikimedia"/>

==Spoofing people's names==

Lomax was criticised in 2021 for using people's real names and pseudonyms in his accounts and webpage links.<ref>https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/abd-spoofs-genderdesk-on-reddit/</ref>

{{quotebox|Abd has created a subreddit using my URL.

He has taken my domain name.

Google is completely fooled, thinks it is my actual site.

It comes up on the first page of a google search, and in a horrible way.}}

In a nutshell, Lomax found a way to harass people he was in a feud with by using their names to mislead Google search results.

==Offensive views on pedophilia and child pornography==
[[File:Abd Lomax pseudoscientist.png|thumb|200px|Abd Lomax at a cold fusion conference]]
{{cquote|Right. That’s my opinion, given the conditions, he is not a threat to children.|||Abd Lomax defending pedophile [[Nathan Larson]] in 2020, a year before he abducted a child.<ref name="Actors">[https://archive.ph/3JcD2 Association with Bad Actors]</ref>}}

Lomax attracted widespread criticism across the internet concerning his offensive views on [[pedophilia]], child pornography and his defense of pedophile [[Nathan Larson]] which resulted in him being banned from various forums.<ref>https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/abd-archive/</ref> Lomax was in long-term communication with Larson and they exchanged many letters and phone calls. Lomax also sent Larson a board-game.<ref name="Actors"/>

Lomax disturbingly claimed [[hebephilia]] (sexual preference for pubescent children typically aged 11-14) is "more or less normal".<ref>https://archive.fo/rS5gX</ref> In a blog post written in 2020 on his website titled "Association with Bad Actors", Lomax defends a number of pedophiles and paedophile-apologists including Larson and [[Michael Coombs]].<ref>https://archive.ph/1F8Pf</ref> Lomax denied that Larson was a pedophile (despite Larson previously [[Nathan Larson#Pedophilia|describing himself as a pedophile]]), writing "he [Larson] is not a pedophile" and "his sexual preferences are normal, not specially-young women." Not long after Lomax wrote this bizarre and inaccurate blog post, Larson was arrested for child abduction (his victim was a 12 year old girl), soliciting child pornography from a minor, and meeting a child for the intention of sex; he also [[Nathan Larson#Pedophilia|administrated a pedophile forum named Rapey]] that was already under investigation for child pornography.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/petition-fbi-investigation-child-abuse-pedophile-forum-1532583</ref><ref>https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/20/nathan-larson-congressional-candidate-arrested-kidnapping-virginia-california/3985536001/</ref><ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/nathan-larson-arrested</ref> After the arrest, Lomax continued to defend Larson,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Nathan_Larson#2021_defense</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/RealWikiInAction/comments/ljo9c0/child_abductor_transported_to_fresno_to_face/go2g5th/ (see Lomax's comments in thread for quotation)</ref> for example arguing he could be innocent since he did not know the age of the girl he abducted and asserting he didn't deceive her (blatantly false since he groomed her online knowing she was vulnerable because of her young age) and doubting whether he kidnapped the girl:

{{quotebox|…what occurred may not have been a kidnapping. But unlawful transport. I don't wonder that the charge was made, because of appearance and possibility. But Larson does not appear to have deceived her. We assume that he knew her age.
Because of her profile, she believed he knew her age, but it is possible that he overlooked it.}}

Lomax was sympathetic to child pornography and claimed (without any evidence), "devices that measure penile erection have shown that normal males have a response to child porn."<ref>https://archive.ph/yqFzu</ref> A blog post on Genderdesk documents his writings on {{wpl|Child erotica}}.<ref>https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/abd-invokes-lewis-carroll/</ref> The Genderdesk blogger also discovered Lomax had a history of defending Nathan Larson as far back as 2014, writing on a Wikimedia site, "Larson "is not a pedophile. He doesn’t fit the definitions. He has no history of molesting children."<ref>http://archive.ph/bzehA</ref> Prior to being arrested, Larson left comments on Abd's website asking him for a character reference to enroll at a university for a Master's degree. According to Larson, "I've asked other people to be a reference and they're all either ignoring me or turning me down."<ref>https://archive.ph/IPorr</ref>

In several blog posts on Lomax's website he defended Michael Coombs who has [[Michael_Coombs#Paedophilia|admitted to being sexually attracted]] to "underage girls".

===Child marriage===

Lomax held controversial views on [[child marriage]]. He said that it is acceptable in the [[Qur'an]]:

{{quotebox|There is nothing preventing a marriage and consummation with a girl '''of any age''', after all, where in the qur'an is that prohibited? Suitability is mentioned, but not defined. If he has her parent's permission, and there is no other defect in the marriage, the marriage will be recognized everywhere.<ref name="Lomax on Reddit">[https://archive.ph/Gzi6L Abd Lomax on child marriage]</ref>}}

{{quotebox|There Qur'an lists the mahram relationships, and permits marriage to other than those. There is no verse forbidding marriage based on age. The sunna of the Arabs, however, was to allow betrothal, which we loosely call "marriage," at any age. From the history we have, Ayesha was betrothed at six, and to do that, a prior betrothal was withdrawn, so she was betrothed even earlier. The Qur'an did not outlaw that practice, and it still exists, and AFAIK, age is irrelevant, on both sides. But consummation is different. There the standard was the onset of puberty, as evidenced by first menstruation.<ref name="Lomax on Reddit"/>}}

He didn't seem to have a problem with child marriage if their was parental and judicial consent:

{{quotebox|And as to consummation, what is the standard? Is it age-based?

Girls vary greatly as to age of first period. 8 years of age is still not considered "precocious puberty," but the relative rarity creates knee-jerk reactions. Sending a girl to live with her betrothed before she menstruated was disapproved, and I cited a case from the Yemen of a prosecution for rape from consummating pre-menarch. Betrothal remains possible today, a father could approve a betrothal at any age, but sending her to love with her husband without following age-of -consent law in the jurisdiction would be a crime, for which the father and husband could be prosecuted, if the latter took advantage of it, and he could lose custody even if that did not happen.
And some states still allow marriage at any age, with parental and judicial consent.

Arab practice was normal for the time, all over the world, ma‘ruwf, and the Qur'an does not normally give details for what is well-known.<ref name="Lomax on Reddit"/>}}

When questioned about the subject on Reddit, Lomax said he was not arguing for child marriage, he was arguing that the Qur'an did not forbid it.<ref name="Lomax on Reddit"/>{{lie}}

===Harris G. Mirkin's study===
"The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality, and Pedophilia," by {{wpl|Harris G. Mirkin}} — is a controversial 1999 article widely interpreted as pedophilia-apologism.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/30/us/scholar-s-pedophilia-essay-stirs-outrage-and-revenge.html</ref> Lomax was a fan of Mirkin's writings on pedophilia and defended the paper in a bunch of comments and forum posts.<ref>https://archive.ph/3DMn1#selection-885.0-889.237</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/QSiBG#selection-2021.1-2021.437</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/ga8bvg/sick_pervert_dennis_lomax_and_child_pornography/</ref> On Wikiversity in 2015, Lomax created a page on Mirkin's 1999 infamous pedophilia article.<ref>https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Sexual_politics/Mirkin (https://archive.ph/uUOQB screenshot)</ref> The blogger Genderdesk has noted: "if you google “Mirkin phase” your first hit will be boywiki.org and subsequent hits are various quotations from Abd and his cold fusion site, as well as some comments Abd made about it here. This is thinly disguised pedophilia advocacy."<ref>https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/abd-archive/#comment-93906</ref>

===WikiInAction ban===

In 2020 Nathan Larson was banned for spamming child porn onto the Reddit board WikiInAction. During this time, Lomax was also banned from the board for defending Larson.<ref>https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/abd-archive/</ref> In 2021 the WikiInAction board was closed down. In 2022, Lomax's friend Dysklyver made him a moderator of the Reddit board RealWikiInAction.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/RealWikiInAction/</ref>

===Wikipediocracy ban===

Lomax was banned from the Wikipediocracy forum for defending pedophiles.<ref name="WOVigilant"/> The Genderdesk blogger has noted that, "Abd’s ban from Wikipediocracy was about pedophilia".<ref>https://archive.ph/mmQ7Z</ref> In regard to his ban, Lomax stated "Banned without warning, explanation, or notice many years ago".<ref>[https://archive.ph/dD5o6 Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>

===Wikipedia Sucks forum===

Lomax was topic-banned from discussing pedophilia on the Wikipedia Sucks forum.<ref>https://archive.ph/0eaZ6</ref> However, this ban did not seem to have come into effect since Lomax continued to discuss it. He claimed to be a protector of children on the forum:

{{quotebox|GenderDesk and Vigilant don’t care about children at all. I do, I have seven children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.}}

===May 2023 deletion spree===

In May 2023, Lomax deleted and edited many of his former posts on [[Reddit]] that were supportive of Nathan Larson. In his more recent posts he still refused to accept that Larson was a pedophile and instead dismissed Larson as a [[troll]]. Lomax did this in response to a thread that was created about him on flatearth Reddit in an attempt to defend his reputation there.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/flatearth/comments/13fjp8b/yall_complain_about_me_because_i_enjoy_bondage/ Y’all complain about me because I enjoy bondage (which is legal) yet you have said nothing about globe earther u/AbdLomax’s defense of child porn (which is illegal).]</ref>

===Wikiindex defense of Nathan Larson===

Lomax said he was invited to the website Wikiindex by [[Nathan Larson]] who was using the name "Leucosticte".<ref name="wikiindex">[https://wikiindex.org/User_talk:Abd User talk:Abd]</ref> During 2014-2015, Lomax made many posts defending Nathan Larson on Wikiindex:

{{quotebox|Leucosticte is, however, not a pedophile, has not been charged with any sex crimes, but is a radical libertarian who tends to take up highly unpopular causes, in the name of freedom, and then he will present what are often rational arguments to be considered. He then appears to be advocating the cause.<ref name="wikiindex"/>}}

{{quotebox|Leudosticte is not a pedophile. He doesn't fit the definitions. He has no history of molesting children. He was in federal prison and was on parole for a completely different offense, and was under intense scrutiny.<ref name="wikiindex"/>}}

This was despite the fact, Nathan Larson was a self-admitted pedophile and was involved in uploading child pornography to multiple websites.

Lomax heavily edited Larson's own userpage on Wikiindex and was interested in editing content related to Nathan Larson's controversial websites such as childporn.info and ChildWiki.<ref>[https://wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Nathan_Larson&action=history Revision history of "Nathan Larson"]</ref><ref>[https://wikiindex.org/Talk:ChildPorn.info Talk:ChildPorn.info]</ref><ref name="Deletion">[https://wikiindex.org/User:Abd/Deletion_questions Abd/Deletion questions]</ref> Lomax says he viewed these websites himself.<ref name="Deletion"/>

As of June 2023 all of Lomax's posts defending Larson and his websites remain on Wikiindex.<ref>[https://wikiindex.org/Special:Contributions/Abd User contributions]</ref>

===Child protection services===

Lomax claimed to have had "extensive experience with child protection services" and said he was investigated. 

{{quotebox|When my situation with my daughter, 12 at the time, and at that point temporarily we were sleeping in the same room, though she was sleeping in a couch facing away from my bed, it was mentioned that it was possible that I would be accidentally exposed to her. That turned out to not be a factor. But it was there as a consideration. An investigator from CPS lied to me, and recommended custody be yanked because my apartment was messy. Long story short, the responsible social worker said “no, he is fully cooperating with us.” And they provided us with tons of resources. If I had been willfully or carelessly exposing myself to her, the outcome could have been very different.<ref name="2023 Reddit">https://archive.ph/HoENB</ref>}}

He also claimed:

{{quotebox|I could find no law that explicitly prohibits nudity before a child, absent “lascivious intent.” But if a worker suspected that, they could, as I wrote, yank custody pending investigation.<ref name="2023 Reddit"/>}}

In reply to his friend [[Nathan Larson]], Lomax claimed to have lost custody of his adopted daughter:

{{quotebox|Look, I've found myself dealing with authorities, over the last year, that had the power and some possible reason to yank custody of my daughter from me. If I had argued with them, the result would have been completely predictable. I had a basis for argument. My adolescent rebel self would definitely have argued. You can't make me. You are wrong. Etc. I might eventually have gotten custody back, if my daughter survived. She might not have.<ref>[https://wikiindex.org/User_talk:Abd User talk:Abd]. wikiindex.org.</ref>}}

===Age of Aisha===

Lomax was obsessed with discussing the age of [[Aisha]], the third wife of [[Muhammad]] who is said to have been 6 or 7 years old at the time of her marriage. 

{{quotebox|The Hadith are inconclusive on the age of Ayesha. The claim that she was six at marriage, failing to distinguish that six was the age of betrothal (revocable promise to marry) and the age of full marriage, which was alleged to be nine. The standard for allowance of consummation was not a specific age but onset of puberty. This was practically universal around the world. There still is, last I looked, no minimum of age of marriage in California with parental and judicial consent. But the sovereign#may set minimum ages of consent and marriage. In Massachusetts the minimum age of consent is 16, but the minimum age of marriage is 18. Apparently, it is okay to have sex but not to marry. These are merely facts, not advocacy. It is up to the sovereign to determine what is lawful.

The Qur’an does not establish a minimum age. Arguing on the internet, too many say what they do not know. For example, that 9 is too young to have entered puberty. Medically, precocious puberty is before eight.<ref>[https://archive.ph/8lgg3 Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

==Reddit==

Lomax spent up to 12 hours a day debating the topic of flat earth and getting banned from various [[Reddit]] boards:

{{cquote|You need to mind your own business.

Reddit is how I get out. I had a stroke in 2020 and have been resident ever since in an extended care facility. This is about my only connection with the outside world, other than staff.|||Abd Lomax<ref>[https://archive.ph/smJkY Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>}}

Lomax was banned from globeskepticism Reddit:

{{cquote|I can’t read the cited post because the mod at r/globeskepticism , u/dcforce , not only banned me from asking a polite question, but also modmessage banned me and personally blocked me. No stated rule was violated.|||Abd Lomax<ref>https://archive.ph/SWsGk</ref>}}

He was also banned from the Sudoku Reddit:

{{cquote|I’m answering this way because I’m banned on r/sudoku.|||Abd Lomax<ref>[https://archive.ph/HiRd4 Banned on sudoku]</ref>}}

And the Islam Reddit:

{{cquote|I don’t perticipate in r/Islam, having been banned there for pointing to some facts, which the mods did not understand.|||Abd Lomax<ref>[https://archive.ph/fIFjL AcademicQuran]</ref>}}

===Spammer===

Lomax spammed the phrase "[[Troll]]s Get the Last Word" on several subreddits over 400 times.<ref name="spam"/><ref name="spammer"/> In December 2023, he was banned from r/flatearth for spamming "Trolls Get the Last Word" onto hundreds of threads.<ref name="spam"/> He tried to appeal his ban without success.<ref name="spam"/>

{{quotebox|Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in r/flatearth because you broke this community's rules. You won't be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it. Note from the moderators:
Spam<ref name="spam"/>}}

Lomax later admitted to the spam, "I use a subreddit r/trolltools routinely to terminate conversations in lieu of blocking, and just today that sub was trolled for the first time. I think I have used that maybe hundreds of times to terminate conversations efficiently."<ref name="spam"/> He said he planned to create an [[Sockpuppet|alternative account]] to avoid his ban.<ref name="spam"/>

The moderator of r/flatearth later commented about Lomax's ban:

{{cquote|The schizophrenic has been banned as of a few days ago, he brought nothing of value to any sort of discussion.
Also we don't support pedophiles, which should be obvious enough.<ref>[https://archive.ph/2z2Ye State of the Subreddit - Sep 2023].</ref>}}

After his ban from r/flatearth, Lomax put "Trolls Get the Last Word" on r/LENR.<ref>[https://archive.ph/YK8l0 Abd Lomax on Reddit].</ref>

===Spamming ''Areo Magazine''===

Lomax spammed the right-wing ''Areo Magazine''. According to its owner [[Helen Pluckrose]], Lomax was the "most persistent troll of Areo".<ref>[https://archive.ph/X0ezO Helen Pluckrose on Twitter]. twitter.com.</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://coldfusioncommunity.net Lomax's "Cold Fusion" blog]
* [https://www.lenr-forum.com/user/597-abd-ul-rahman-lomax/ Lomax] on the Lenr forum
* [https://www.quora.com/profile/Abd-Ul-Rahman-Lomax Lomax] on [[Quora]]
* [https://www.reddit.com/user/Abdlomax Lomax] on [[Reddit]]
* [https://hypothes.is/users/Abd Lomax] on Hypothes.is

==References==
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