Matthias Gross

Position

Professor of Environmental Sociology

Affiliation

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and (joint appointment) University of Jena, Germany

Advisory Board 2019-2021 of the RN12 Environment & Society

Discussion – Key Debates, Viewpoints & Interviews

Beliefs and knowledges – The Largest Possible Experiment: The Corona Pandemic as Nonknowledge Transfer

2021, issue 46, Matthias Gross: In 1986, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, sociological observers labelled the accident the “largest thinkable experiment” [1]. They did so since the origin of the accident started during a standard experiment on the nuclear reactor that subsequently went into the wild and became a real world experiment with an unknown outcome.