The notion that the truth is midway between two poles of debate is a longstanding American myth, but it does not work in this case.

Despite the longstanding "myth of fur-clad Indians migrating across the strait" 20,000 years ago, he said, "our research shows very little evidence for people crossing before 14,000 years ago."

Writing in his memoirs, Ernest Hemingway, an avid big-game hunter but a poor naturalist, repeated the longstanding myth that the hyenas were hermaphrodites.

Like Darwin, they helped to dismantle a longstanding myth of human exceptionalism.

As a result, he is able to explode some longstanding myths about the role of the Chiefs.

There's a longstanding myth that women don't get coronary artery disease.

A longstanding myth holds that Shah Jahan planned a mausoleum to be built in black marble across the Yamuna river.

"Her head was attached as much as mine is," says Jim Roberts, gently dismissing a longstanding myth about Jayne Mansfield's grisly demise.

A longstanding myth has been the supposed refusal of Luciano and the Cosa Nostra to deal in narcotics.

The incident helped end a longstanding myth about the docility of non-English speaking miners.