Thanks for the citation Tami... corals are a side hobby.

As a peer reviewer... the shorthand we offer to grad students is... "Data Speaks..." The discussion part of the paper is just that discussion and interpretation. The data collected should stand and be repeatable. Interpretations can and do extend beyond the data and they may change with the next addition to the scientific literature. Reasonable people will agree to disagree and work to come up with a better experiment to test the critical feature of the current model.