Feminist epistemology has three approaches: feminist empiricist, feminist point of view and postmodern feminist. Feminist empiricism believes that traditional methods of acquiring knowledge through the social sciences are still valid; however, gender bias must be eliminated in order to fully acquire true knowledge (Travers, 2010, p. 26). Feminist empiricists believe that women are the best tools for achieving objectivity. According to Travers (2010), “women (or feminists, men or women) as a group are more likely to produce unbiased and objective results than men (or non-feminists) as a group” (p. 27). As part of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, Berger (1988) studied the effects the pipeline would have on the North. Throughout the inquiry, Berger testified about how the pipeline would affect the environment, hunting, fishing and the Indigenous economy as well as the social impacts it would have on the community. Berger (1988) examined the specific impacts that the pipeline would have and argues that it would have a cost in terms of welfare, crime and violence, health and health services, and alcohol (p. 202-205). Berger does not take into account the impacts the pipeline would have on Indigenous women living in the North. Almost all the accounts of northerners are men. There are certainly indigenous women living in the North and the absence of women's demands is at the origin of a major bias in the social research carried out by Berger. If a researcher conducted this investigation in the North, I believe there would be a greater diversity of points of view regarding the social impacts that the pipeline could potentially have. According to Travers (2010), "feminist empiricists criticize the sexism that influences what problems are considered appropriate for scientific study, who can study them, what assumptions about gender norms are ignored, and the invisibility of women and questions of gender. concern for women in science” (p. 27). Before Berger conducted the investigation, who and why was a male researcher chosen, what topics were to be explored, and if there was evidence regarding women, did Berger ignore it? What perspectives on research are being considered? (Smith, 1999, p. 187). Even considering the people chosen to do this research, would the research results be different if there was an Indigenous researcher? (Smith, 1999, p. 127). These questions are all important to feminist empiricists. Research doesn't become biased just because there is a male researcher, it's because men have been trained in a specific way..