Had it been the case that he interpreted his experiments to show that they were consistent with my experiments, then I think both our careers would have evolved in a substantially different fashion. But that is not what he did. By adding the results of two statistically positive experiments under the aegis of the linear model he could conclude that, overall, his study was negative. The general industry spin was that his experiments refuted my experiments. But, insofar as I am aware, that was never his personal position. I think he personally believed that powerline EMFs caused effects, and that he was truly concerned about the potential health consequences. In a meeting at which Phillips and I were part of a four-man panel, we were asked whether we would live beside a high-voltage powerline, Phillips said that he would not do so.
The problem with Phillips, I think, is that it never occurred to him that viewing the world exclusively through the lens of the linear model was an error. He was heavily involved in the politics and business of science, and was strongly influenced in EMF matters by William Kaune, an engineer (for whom a consideration of a nonlinear model was hopelessly out of the question). Phillips was simply not in a position to be receptive to a new idea.