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Apr 11, 2020 12:09
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English term

Conclusion

COVID-19 English Science Journalism
Present were the scientific panjandrums who have since become television celebrities, the likes of Neil Ferguson, a pandemic modeler. Still there appeared little point-blank questions to the conclusion.

^ This was the only context I received.
Responses
4 +1 consensus (the opinion of the experts)
3 right up until the conclusion of the *event/day/meeting*
Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (1): Yvonne Gallagher

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Discussion

Tony M Apr 11, 2020:
@ Mark I suspect this 'meeting' is probably discussing some prior 'conclusion', though not actually questioning it very much; this is the only way I can interpret any kind of 'questioning' before the conclusion of this meeting.
Mark Robertson Apr 11, 2020:
"Still there appeared little point-blank questions to the conclusion." This sentence makes no sense.

Does it mean that there were only a few questions that queried the conclusion?

Or, that the event ended without any challenging questions having been asked?
adel almergawy Apr 11, 2020:
is the last part of something, its end or result. When you write a paper, you always end by summing up your arguments and drawing a conclusion about what you've been writing about.
Yvonne Gallagher Apr 11, 2020:
@ Asker You're welcome https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conclusion
Haneen Salameh (asker) Apr 11, 2020:
@Yvonne thank you
Yvonne Gallagher Apr 11, 2020:
@ Asker conclusion =the conclusion they reached. In other words, they came to some consensus. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conclusi...
Ebrahim Mohammed Apr 11, 2020:
I bet your professor himself wouldn't know its meaning if it is presented to him like this, cut out of context and changed!
Haneen Salameh (asker) Apr 11, 2020:
I found this. Scientific panjandrums who have since become television celebrities, such as the pandemic modeller, Niel Ferguson, were at the meeting. But there appeared to be little objections raised to the conclusion directly afterwards.

So does the conclusion refer to the conclusion of the meeting?
Haneen Salameh (asker) Apr 11, 2020:
I have no context. I was sent this as an assignment and my professor didn't provide any extra information. I found the article online but couldn't find second sentence anywhere. https://www.unz.com/pcockburn/the-chaotic-response-to-corona...
Tony M Apr 11, 2020:
@ Asker It would certainly help to know WHAT it is that you are translating?
Are we to assume that there was some kind of 'meeting' of these 'experts', to discuss someone's 'conclusion' about the pandemic, and hence the writer of this text is saying that, despite the presence of these experts to discuss it, no-one was really questioning the basic premise of the 'conclusion' under consideration?
Haneen Salameh (asker) Apr 11, 2020:
Yep. I googled it and some words were garbled and taken out of context. I couldn't find the last sentence at all though. The word "present" refers to them being present at a meeting, if that helps.
philgoddard Apr 11, 2020:
So you were just asked to translate two sentences, and you don't have the text before and after this?
The whole sentence makes no sense to me. Could it be garbled?

Responses

2 hrs

right up until the conclusion of the *event/day/meeting*

This could mean, like Yvonne said, conclusion they reached.
It could also mean the conclusion of the meeting or whatever context this is from.

They kept asking questions, from the beginning of the meeting, right up until it's conclusion!
Peer comment(s):
neutral Yvonne Gallagher : quite obvious if you read the article it does not mean "ending" here//OK switched to neutral. Well, it was posted 30 mins after original question and others in Dbox continued to ignore it...
20 hrs
Yes I completely agree, I did not see the article posted however, I believe I answered before it was posted in the discussion. I did say it could mean yours too, I was merely offering another option with the only context I had at the time.
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22 hrs

consensus (the opinion of the experts)

Asker, it is really important to post quotations correctly. veryone still seems to be looking at the garbled version you originally posted rather than reading the article. It's obvious from the article that "conclusion" does NOT mean "end(ing) here but rather the conclusion or OPINION REACHED BY THE EXPERTS. Immediately after that meeting, it says there were few, if any, objections to the conclusion reached so one could say these experts reached a consensual agreement that the virus would NOT have much impact on the UK and hence they did not ban events such as the Cheltenham race meeting. A big mistake as it turned out.

https://www.unz.com/pcockburn/the-chaotic-response-to-corona...

"...From the beginning, the authorities underestimated the gravity of the crisis: only five-and-a-half weeks ago, on 21 February, a meeting of government scientific advisers concluded that Covid-19 posed only a “moderate risk” to Britain. This was well after the epidemic had swept through China, where there were already 75,465 cases and 2,236 deaths, and was spreading to South Korea, Taiwan, Iran, Italy and France.

Scientific panjandrums who have since become television celebrities, such as the pandemic modeller Neil Ferguson, were at the meeting. But there appeared little objections raised to the conclusion directly afterwards.

A quarter of a million people were allowed to attend the Cheltenham Festival on 10 to 13 March, only ten days before Boris Johnson said that everybody should stay at home and not gather in large numbers to avoid the spread of the deadly virus. These were miscalculations of First World War dimensions and are already exacting a heavy toll in human lives."

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Note added at 22 hrs (2020-04-12 10:49:05 GMT)
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typo on 1st line of explanation: EVERYONE



https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conclusion
Peer comment(s):
agree Victoria Monk : Yes I completely agree, please see comment on my own answer.
23 hrs
Many thanks:-)
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