His death caused controversy among some members of the conspiracy theory community which made him the target of reports from BBC News and other news outlets. Max believed in a variety of paranormal events, including that he had been altered as a child to become a supersoldier. Max's credibility as a conspiracy theorist has been doubted by other members of the conspiracy theory community, including Adam Borowski from Radio Paranormalium, a Polish independent journalist who stated "he [Max] seemed to collect the research of other people and present it as his own" and that Max had never proven having any abilities related to his claim of being made a supersoldier at birth.[1]