I am with PleasurePays on this one.
Only when Google saw that their
if you try to manipulate Pagerank you will get banned from the SERPS tactics didn't work did their Chief Of Misinformation Officer come up with this PR is dead line that the whole SEO community swallowed whole.
If PR had so little incidence on ranking you have to wonder why they were putting so much energy trying to prevent people from manipulating it.
It isn't a be all end all but it is sure as shit isn't as irrelevant as they now have led people to believe.
