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The article writes:

> Anaxagoras was arrested, tried and sentenced to death, ostensibly for breaking impiety laws while promoting his ideas about the moon and sun.

This provides the context to understand that while the title is true at a surface level, his claims around the moon likely served as pretext rather than true cause.

You write:

> Its exactly analogous to claiming James Watson was attacked because people didn't like the chemical bond structure of DNA.

I disagree. An exact analogy would require that James Watson was actually attacked for his belief in the structure of DNA, which served as a pretext for the real claims against him. James Watson was attacked directly for his views on race.