DI "policy analyst" Logan Gage tells us:
Michael Behe does biochemical research with his University of Pennsylvania Ph.D.; Jonathan Wells does biological research with his U.C. Berkeley Ph.D.; Stephen Meyer researches the history and philosophy of science with his Cambridge University Ph.D.; etc.
Not quite. Behe stopped being a productive scientist a long time ago. Wells has published a total of three peer-reviewed papers in the thirteen years since he got his PhD, the last of which in the scientific equivalent of The Onion. Meyer - to the best of my knowledge - has never published a peer-reviewed article in the history and philosophy of science, or at least one in any of the HPS journals that I know of.
If this is Gages’ best case, it's laughable; ID flacks may have "reputable Ph.D.s," but they ain’t doing any science with them.
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I like how he refers to Ph.D.s as if they're actual tools. Like magnifying glasses. To find nonexistent needles in haystacks.
So Basically the DI is saying "look at all these PhDs, they must be Right. This is otherwise known as an appeal to Authority. Nevermind that what they propose is not science. Forget that all they offer is logical fallacy and "god-of-the-gaps". They have PhDs, and so must be right!
Technologists have a word for an otherwise useless person who has a PhD -- "Piles it Higher and Deeper"
Wells isn't the worst case of credentialism among IDers.
Casey Luskin wrote at one point: "As an attorney and scientist who observed the Dover intelligent design (ID) trial, I can testify that George Annas's account is incomplete."
According to his bio at the IDEA website, Luskin holds an M. S. degree in earth sciences from UCSD and a J. D. from USD School of Law. Oh well...