By the way, both Rypdal and the foreman of the jury in the Hage case in 1984, Ole Strand (VG 25 April 1998), are wrong when they claim that competence in the form of counter-expertise did not exist earlier. On the contrary, what is new is that professional people with insight, self-criticism, and their feet on solid ground are not being sought and used, nor is their knowledge built on, by our judicial bodies, who have instead let a chorus with a mania for sex-abuse shout down common sense.