Stop theme displaying comments

OK I think I figured this out…

    add_action( 'init', array( &$this, 'no_comments' ) );

    function no_comments()  {
        add_filter( 'get_comments_number', '__return_false' );  
    }

Removes the comment count and the comments themselves

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