"Of course a book is not an article in a reputable scientific journal, the author can write anything he wishes, and any "peer-review" of such a book need not follow the rigorous criticisms that a "
Guess again. The Cambridge review process is considered as rigorous as journal articles.
How do you know that their editorial review process is as rigorous as a the peer review process used by major scientific journals? Anyway, a book is not an article, and Dembski's The Design Inference was published by Cambridge as a philosophy book. It is not part of the scientific literature.