As far as homeopathy goes the belief is differently controversial for different people. Convincing the average new atheist that homeopathy works is very hard. There's identity involved. Convincing people who don't care on the other hand is easier.

Are you objecting to both political and non-political beliefs, and wouldn't that make the initial claim, you know, unfalsifiable?

I do think that chaosmage has experience in trying to change someone mind about the NSA. I do think that he found in his experience that it's easier to change someone's mind about rationality.

There nothing unfalsifiable about making that observation.