Originally Posted by lol101 
I don't see any bias here: they have a testing procedure and apply it to each camera. Fair enough, it's the rule of the game.
Reviews are prospective buyers's tools for comparative assesment of different cameras.
Now imagine you're a prospective buyer and want to compare 40D, E3, A700 and D300 to K20.
95% of prospective buyers will take the ratings and do the comparison: based on that, which one would you buy?
I don't work for Pentax but if I did, I wouldn't be pleased to see my latest offering trailing at the end of the pack in noise, color accuracy, DR, AF speed and overall IQ in jpeg... do people read Pop Photo and give it credit for its reviews?
I personally think it's a positive review but there are some areas that they made big mistakes on their end.
They said the Sony A700 takes better images because of color accuracy, but in their own test on the A700 they rate to color worse than the Pentax 8.9 vs 7.9. It's bad book keeping on their end and it shouldn't happen. They also state the A700 shake reduction is slightly superior to the K20D which they give both a 3 stop advantage too so I'm not seeing the whole advantage here and what the heck does
slightly superior mean? They do that a lot in the review using big words to make something just a tad different sound huge. But overall after reading it they basically say it's better than an A700 Canon 40D, but doesn't hold a candle to the D300 except in resolution.