Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax (born 1944), also known as Daniel Lomax is an American cold fusion proponent, pseudoscience promoter and Muslim.
Background
Lomax studied physics at the California Institute of Technology but dropped out. He never "graduated from any college or university."[1][2] He claims to have attended lectures with physicist Richard Feynman (1961-1963).[1]
Lomax founded the (now defunct) website Beyond Politics to solve "many of the social and political problems with plague our world."[3][4]
Religion
Lomax converted to Islam in 1970.[5][6] During 1978-1979 he lived with Abdalqadir as-Sufi founder of the Murabitun World Movement. According to Lomax he "edited and helped to publish a number of books by him." He was later discharged from the group.[7][8]
Lomax does not deny the possibility of miracles but has disputed the claims of Rashad Khalifa regarding numerical miracles in the Quran.[9][10]
Lomax concluded:
"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.[11]
Lomax was involved in a long internet debate with Edip Yuksel on numeral miracles. The debate was printed in book format in 1995 and republished in 2012.[12] Lomax's criticisms were positively cited in a book by Martin Gardner.[11] He has received criticism from other Muslims for and referring to his opponents as "khalifite(s)".[13]
Cold Fusion
In 2009, Lomax was topic banned from editing the Wikipedia cold fusion article for "disruptive editing". Two years later he was community banned and received an indefinite block.[14][15]
Lomax is the owner of the pseudoscientific "Infusion Institute" which he formed in December, 2013.[16] 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-viewed journal Current Science.[17][18]
According to Lomax:
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.[19]
At least one news report has incorrectly described Lomax as a "physicist".[20] 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."[21]
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".[22][23] Lomax argues that:
Parapsychology is, by definition, a science.[24]
This is despite the fact most scientists consider it a pseudoscience.[25][26]
He has worked with psychic Craig Weiler in promoting paranormal studies on Wikiversity.[27]
Diet woo
Lomax is an advocate of the Atkins Diet a low-carb fad diet that most of the medical community have rejected as quackery.[28]
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Biography: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax.
- ↑ Cold fusion/Experts/Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
- ↑ Beyond Politics.
- ↑ Beyond Politics, an Introduction.
- ↑ Christian-Muslim Exchange: Islamic Encounters -- Part 3
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ Who are the Murabitun?
- ↑ Warning about a Shady Cult: Murabitun and Ian Dallas.
- ↑ The Number 19 in the Qur'an. Bahá'í Library Online.
- ↑ bismillAhi r-raHmAni r-raHiym.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Gardner, Martin. (2000). Did Adam and Eve Have Navels. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 260-261. Online.
- ↑ Yuksel, Edip. (2012). Running Like Zebras. Braionbow Press. ISBN 978-0982586730
- ↑ Personal Attacks from Daniel Lomax.
- ↑ Proposed community ban of Abd from English Wikipedia. Wikipedia administrator comment: "Abd was topic banned from cold fusion-related articles by ArbCom for a year as a result of a pattern of disruptive editing... This topic ban is still in effect, and Abd has absolutely no intention of abiding by it. Abd was indefinitely blocked a few months ago and has since made numerous edits to Wikipedia in violation of that block and his topic ban."
- ↑ User contributions. Wikipedia.
- ↑ What is Infusion Institute?
- ↑ 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 Archive if link is offline).
- ↑ Articles written by Lomax, Abd Ul-Rahman. Current Science.
- ↑ Replicable cold fusion experiment: heat/helium ratio. Archive.
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ Cold fusion journalism.
- ↑ Parapsychology/Dispute over Scientific Status/Abd. Wikiversity. (Archived).
- ↑ Update May 16, 2016. Also check the Archive.
- ↑ Archive
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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 replicated."
- ↑ Parapsychology. Wikiversity.
- ↑ Talk:Atkins diet. Wikipedia.