Unfortunately, the standard disciplinary formulations are even more suspect and querulous in terms of theory building. For example, let us take the case of benefit cost analysis: U.S. president Bill Clinton accepted an entirely new budget busting component in 1996 when he ordered expanded disability benefits for U.S. Vietnam veterans who might have contracted prostrate cancer,basing his decision on scientifically inconclusive evidence linking prostrate cancer to the herbicide agent orange.Considering that close to 3 million men fought in Vietnam and that 10 percent of all man (regardless of their Vietnam experience)