Storme sees the Centre as leading a "political inquisition" in suppressing alternative political views.

Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory claiming that certain special interest groups are suppressing alternative views in science.

But it is as an official means of suppressing dissenting or heretical views that book-burning has acquired its infamy.

PSSI asserts that academic freedom is being hampered by evolution supporters suppressing views that they disagree with.

The letter stated: "To suppress views of those we dislike will inevitably risk suppression of our own.

Use of the word denialism has been criticised, for example as a polemical propaganda tool to suppress non-mainstream views.

The majority naturally want to suppress opposing views, they said, but it is wiser to let ideas be tested in the marketplace.

More original is a chapter on how the I.R.S. has been used for "curbing political dissent, maintaining the official line and suppressing unpopular views."

However, it is regrettable if this degenerates into causing destruction, disturbance, threatening people and suppressing other views.

To deny us this right is tantamount to giving the press the right to suppress facts and views with which it disagrees.