Xaqaria, for a start, WBTB is not a term coined by Laberge.
And without LaBerge, I'd be willing to put money on Lucid Dreaming still being vitrually unheard of... to you and me both.

And what Newport does is very different from what goes on on this site.

This site: people come together, share there ideas, work together, develop ideas, for a community etc.

Newport: Runs his own forum (so HE is in control, becomes the expert)
Makes a load of videos, claiming everyone else is wrong and only HE knows the way to make you lucid.

And whoever it was who said that Newports credentials are "running a forum."
Is that all it takes to get a qualification nowadays?
Would you let someone who ran a forum for Pilots fly a plane for you?
Hell, im going to go make my own brainsurgeon forum!

Most important factors with Newport to me are these:

* He claims only he is right.
* He Bashes every other lucid dream technique
* He rewrites the terminology, so that only he is the expert in terminology.
* He deletes critical or questioning comments from his youtube videos.
* His information is basically false and misleading.
* His Graphs, if you take the time to look at them, make NO SENSE.