Yet every few years it gets dug up again and some new scholar claims to have new evidence "proving" its authenticity. They always focus on some single aspect of the stone that could theoretically be interpreted in the correct light after a few beers as having been centuries old instead of just a few decades. At the same time, they also quietly ignore all the other problems with the stone that prove it's a hoax.
Real historians and archaeologists don't even bother debunking these new claims because there really is no point. The stone is a hoax, but facts simply don't matter to the true believers.
I've never been able to figure out why, with all the real evidence of vikings in North America, some people still feel a need to cling desperately to obvious fakeries like the kensington stone. It probably has something to do with the local kensington tourism board.
As an aside, has anyone else noticed how every time a hoax like this is "discovered", whether it's the kensington stone or piltdown man or whatever, it's always done by a man? Any men out there want to explain that to me?
Interesting point you raise on the men being the exclusive discoverers (and presumbably perpetrators) of the hoaxes.
One possible exception would be the Cottingley fairy photographs. The photographic hoax was confected by young females. They became famous when Arthur Conan Doyle became aware of them, but he didn't discover them. Though Doyle was credulous, he was not a part of the original hoax.