Abd ul-Rahman Lomax



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.

Satan is very real. Beware.

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax (born 1944 as Dennis George Lomax, which continues to be his legal name) , known on Reddit as Abd Lomax is an American flat earth debater, conspiracy theorist, cholesterol denialist, and low-carb high-fat fanatic who is best known as proponent of pseudoscientific cold fusion. Lomax has been banned from a number of websites such as for his controversial views on pedophilia and his defense of Nathan Larson. Lomax has controversially claimed that hebephilia (sexual preference for pubescent children typically aged 11-14) is "more or less normal".

Lomax supports diet woo such as the Atkins diet, carnivore diet, and other low-carb quackery. Lomax was formerly a member of an Islamic cult with links to the alt-right. He has a notorious history of getting into internet vendettas with people who do not share his views and often defends people with other fringe views such as Neo-Nazis.

Lomax became a Muslim in 1970. He was involved for two years with the Murabitun World Movement, a politically active extremist Sufi sect with a history of antisemitism, but was forced to leave the group in 1980. Despite this, he has written extensively about Islam on the internet since the 1990s. Lomax is a free speech advocate and proponent of civil liberties unless it's other people's rights to privacies and to lambast his viewpoints without being harassed.

He is widely considered to be an internet troll and cyber-harasser noted for disruption, trolling, and posting of personal information. He has been banned on a number of forums and wikis, including Wikipedia, Wikipediocracy,, RationalWiki, Wikiversity, Meta-Wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and at least 5 Reddit boards.

He has written a series of blog posts defending people such as Nathan Larson, Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Michael Coombs and other alt-right activists. He is also known to use his blog to attack people he is disgruntled with, including administrators on websites he is banned from. One of his favorite methods of attack is to 'weaponize' Google searches, so if someone searches for a name, Lomax's blog will show up with ad hominem and lies written about them.

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.

Lomax has hundreds of posts on various websites including Quora where he has promoted cholesterol denialism. For example, he has commented that "cholesterol itself is poorly associated with death from heart disease." After having a stroke in 2020 and a heart attack in 2021, Lomax's internet activity is restricted to Reddit where he spends up to 12 hours a day debating flat earth and religion.

Lomax has difficulty distinguishing between what is real and imaginary and in June 2023 admitted he has experienced schizophrenic episodes in the past. He said he experienced "real miracles" but was hospitalized and now accepts that some of his "interpretations were illusions".

Education
Lomax claims to have studied undergraduate physics at the California Institute of Technology; he has no degree. He admits he never "graduated from any college or university." However, he writes on websites he attended Cal Tech lectures, studying with Richard Feynman (1961-1963), further that he has knowledge of physics. He also claims to have taken Linus Pauling's freshman chemistry class. Despite, or perhaps because of this, Lomax has previously asserted that formal teachings are unnecessary for him, because he is able to "learn by writing".

Family
Lomax has been divorced seven times. He claims four of his marriages were not were legally registered.

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. 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.

Lomax says he personally knew Charles Manson.

Islam
Lomax converted to Islam in 1970 and claims to have "become a leader of a spiritual community" as a successor to a popular New Age mystic Sufi named. 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". His legal and birth name is Dennis George Lomax.

Between 1978-1979 Lomax was a member of the Tucson branch of the Islamic Murabitun World Movement, an extremist Sufi sect. 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. 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". Although Lomax claims to still be on good terms with Abdalqadir.

During the 1990s, Lomax was a regular on the Usenet newsgroup soc.religion.islam. Lomax claims to be a moderator of the newsgroup. He has posted voluminously on the subject of Islamic teachings and the sect he was formerly a member of, which he describes as a cult, but claims that is an objective description and not meant with negative connotations. Since leaving Usenet, Lomax became active on Quora, posting similarly.

Numeric miracles in the Qur'an
Lomax does not deny the possibility of miracles but has disputed the claims of Rashad Khalifa regarding numeric miracles in the Qur'an.

Concerning Khalifa, Lomax has written:

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. According to critics, Lomax is notorious for ad hominem.

Martin Gardner
Lomax's skepticism about numerical miracles was positively cited in a book by Martin Gardner. Lomax cites Gardner on websites to prevent himself from being labelled as a pseudo-scientist for his unorthodox views about cold fusion. However, what this actually shows is an example of stopped clock.

God
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.

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

You would expect Lomax to be a pantheist with this view but he believes in an anthropomorphic deity that can curse, forgive and reward people.

Lomax rejects science and believes that God created the "heavens and the earth", so he believes in a personal deity and also claims to have seen miracles. However, Lomax has admitted to having schizophrenia and now accepts that some of the "real miracles" he experienced were illusions.

Despite all this, Lomax criticizes others for "anthropomorphis[ing] God". Like other religious fanatics, Lomax avoids talking about the problem of evil.

Satan
Lomax believes that Satan is real. In June 2023, he commented:

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

Cold fusion
Lomax is the owner of the pseudoscientific "Infusion Institute" which he formed in December, 2013. It is not a recognized scientific institute, he is the only member. In 2015, he wrote a paper arguing for cold fusion that was published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Science.

According to Lomax:

At least one news report has incorrectly described Lomax as a "physicist". Lomax has made a number of far-fetched claims, for example he has stated that with further development "cold fusion could supply clean power for humanity indefinitely."

Lomax is the owner of Lomax Design Associates, now 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.

Diet woo
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.

Lomax is a cholesterol denialist who argues that high LDL cholesterol levels do not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. He denies that there is a link between saturated fat consumption and increased blood cholesterol levels. He eats a low-carbohydrate high-fat (LCHF) meat-based diet and similar to other low-carb fanatics recommends high consumption of saturated fat. He also defends the dangerous carnivore diet and pseudoscientific ideas of Shawn Baker. "Baker knows his stuff", Lomax commented in 2019.

Lomax has spent years eating the Atkins diet, which most of the medical community have rejected as a fad diet.

Lomax argues against low-fat and vegan diets. On his website he has defended cholesterol denialists and low-carb promoters such as Malcolm Kendrick and Gary Taubes. Lomax argues on his website (without providing evidence) that a high-fat diet will decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke. For example, Lomax says that "In spite of being high-fat, Atkins eaters improved cardiac risk factors". He gives no peer-reviewed scientific evidence for this statement.

Lomax says he was diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia in 1990 and with prostate cancer in 2007. In April 2020, Lomax had an ischemic stroke. High LDL cholesterol levels increase the risk of ischemic stroke. In 2021, Lomax had a heart attack. His arteries were blocked and he had a coronary stent and a cardiac monitor implanted. He now resides at an extended care facility. After having his stroke and heart attack, Lomax insists the reason for them is unknown and he still claims saturated fat consumption does not increase the risk of heart disease. He says he eats a low-carb high fat diet in his care facility, including 3 eggs with cheese and cream everyday.

Parapsychology
Lomax is supportive of research in parapsychology but claims he is not a "believer" in the subject. He has argued against skeptics who dismiss parapsychology as pseudoscientific and refers to skeptics of parapsychology as "pseudoskeptics". Lomax argues that:

The vast majority of scientists, however, consider it a pseudoscience.

He has worked with psychic Craig Weiler and his friend Ben Steigmann in promoting paranormal studies on Wikiversity. These studies were deleted in January, 2018.

Defense of Emil Kirkegaard and racialism
Lomax's exact views on race are hard to pin down, but he has defended individuals from the "race realist" community, which Lomax believes is a respectable position. In February 2018, he wrote an extremely bizarre article defending Emil O. W. Kirkegaard and the controversial London Conference on Intelligence. Lomax says he has not seen any evidence that offensive or racist material was presented at the UCL conferences.🇱🇮 This is despite the fact that over 80% of the speakers have published papers in the Mankind Quarterly, a pseudo-scholarly racist journal. Lomax has defended the journal and criticized the Wikipedia article on it as biased, describing it as "clearly a scientific journal". Mainstream academics have described the Mankind Quarterly as a "white supremacist journal".

Lomax takes issue with the Southern Poverty Law Center which he claims is "highly political". He criticizes their report on Richard Lynn, claiming "this hit piece is simply hitting on stereotypes about racism and sexism, knee-jerk expectations". On his blog, Lomax links to the neo-Nazi encyclopedia Rightpedia as a "valid" source of information. One can speculate that his defense of alt-right speakers such as Kirkegaard and Lynn stems from his interest in protecting civil liberties:

Internet trolling
As an internet troll, and cyber-harasser, Lomax is infamous for disruption, trolling of admins, and posting of other editors personal information. He has been banned on a number of forums and wikis, including Wikipedia, RationalWiki, Wikiversity, Meta-Wiki, and Encyclopedia Dramatica.

He uses his blog to attack administrators on websites he is banned from; mainly by weaponizing Google searches, so if someone searches a name — his blog will 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. In February 2018, he was globally banned by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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.

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".

Spoofing people's names
Lomax has been criticised in 2021 for using people's real names and pseudonyms in his accounts and webpage links.

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

Offensive views on pedophilia and child pornography
Right. That’s my opinion, given the conditions, he is not a threat to children.

Lomax has attracted widespread criticism across the internet concerning his offensive views on pedophilia, child pornography and his defense of pedophile Nathan Larson which has resulted in him being banned from various forums. Lomax was in long-term communication with Larson and they exchanged many letters and phone calls. Lomax also sent Larson a board-game.

Lomax has disturbingly claimed hebephilia (sexual preference for pubescent children typically aged 11-14) is "more or less normal". 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. Lomax denies that Larson is a pedophile (despite Larson has previously 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 administrated a pedophile forum named Rapey that was already under investigation for child pornography. Since the arrest, Lomax has continued to defend Larson, 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:

Lomax is sympathetic to child pornography and has claimed (without any evidence), "devices that measure penile erection have shown that normal males have a response to child porn." A blog post on Genderdesk documents his writings on. The Genderdesk blogger also discovered Lomax has 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." 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."

In several blog posts on Lomax's website he has defended Michael Coombs who has admitted to being sexually attracted to "underage girls". Lomax, however, denies Coombs is a pedophile on the basis his sexual attraction to children is not primary or exclusive; instead, Lomax claims "This is, indeed, normal male sexuality and definitely not pedophilia." In his blog post "Association with Bad Actors", Lomax also defends Emil Kirkegaard, an activist for legalizing child pornography. In 2018, Kirkegaard filed a libel suit after being called a pedophile and Lomax published numerous misleading blog pages defending him during the lawsuit; in 2020, Kirkegaard lost the case by discontinuance, having earlier lost the preliminary judgment. Lomax has since described the failed lawsuit as "unskillfully prosecuted" by Kirkegaard.

Harris G. Mirkin's study
"The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality, and Pedophilia," by — is a controversial 1999 article widely interpreted as pedophilia-apologism. Lomax is a fan of Mirkin's writings on pedophilia and has defended the paper in a bunch of comments and forum posts. On Wikiversity in 2015, Lomax created a page on Mirkin's 1999 infamous pedophilia article. 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."

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. In 2021 the WikiInAction board was closed down. In 2022, Lomax's friend Dysklyver made him moderator of the Reddit board RealWikiInAction.

Wikipediocracy ban
Lomax was banned on the Wikipediocracy forum for defending pedophiles. The Genderdesk blogger has noted that, "Abd’s ban from Wikipediocracy was about pedophilia". In regard to his ban, Lomax has stated "Banned without warning, explanation, or notice many years ago".

Wikipedia Sucks forum
Lomax was topic-banned from discussing pedophilia on the Wikipedia Sucks forum.

May 2023 deletion spree
In May 2023, Lomax deleted and edited many of his former posts on Reddit that were supportive of Nathan Larson. However, archive copies remain for many of his posts. Lomax did this in response to a thread that was created about him on flatearth Reddit in an attempt to defend his reputation there.

Wikiindex defense of Nathan Larson
Lomax says he was invited to the website Wikiindex by Nathan Larson who was using the name "Leucosticte". During 2014-2015, Lomax made many posts defending Nathan Larson on Wikiindex:

This is despite the fact, Nathan Larson was 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. Lomax says he viewed these websites himself.

As of June 2023 all of Lomax's posts defending Larson and his websites remain on Wikiindex.

Reddit
As of August 2022, Lomax spends up to 12 hours a day debating the topic of flat earth and getting banned from various Reddit boards:

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.

Lomax is also banned on the Sudoku Reddit:

I’m answering this way because I’m banned on r/sudoku.

And the Islam Reddit:

I don’t perticipate in r/Islam, having been banned there for pointing to some facts, which the mods did not understand.

Lomax is active on the flatearth Reddit, this is one of the few places that have not banned him.