Kaley Beins, MPH

Enviro health researcher focusing on chemical exposures. EJ advocate. Opinions my own. | @UMDPublicHealth @FulbrightPrgrm & @Georgetown alum @SigmaXiSociety

[al @fxingalx]

“Only eat food with ingredients you can pronounce!” Ok well what if I’m really good at pronouncing words? What if I’m just a better reader than you? Is it healthier for me?

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.

This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.

Not one dime for this cruelty.

https://t.co/7KH6bt7YGY

[Spencer Allan Brooks @SpencerSays]

46° in DC

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Vance is parroting Trump’s “ICE will make mistakes" line b/c they're finally realizing Americans are horrified.

But their actions – Renee Good's killing, detaining kids, racial profiling, entering homes w/o warrants – are the result of orders from Miller, Noem, Vance, & Trump.

We cannot let them hide or give them another dime.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Not true, I don’t despise antivaccine activists, including aggressive ones. Instead I view them as victims of health disinformation campaigns organized by a wellness influencer industry for its profit, adopted by a political party for control. Many lack critical thinking skills

[Kaley Beins, MPH @BeinsKaley]

@NIH @NIHDirector_Jay Except funding apparently.

[American Academy of Pediatrics @AmerAcadPeds]

Today’s ACIP meeting promoted false claims and misguided information about vaccines. AAP will continue stepping up and working with our local, state and federal partners to make sure every child in every community continues to have access to immunizations.
https://t.co/iL3kubqbv2

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

👍🏼

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW.

[Kaley Beins, MPH @BeinsKaley]

@SkinCareBully Thank you!

[Kaley Beins, MPH @BeinsKaley]

Glad to have the opportunity to talk about talc with @FuchsWriter for TIME. A perfect example of where alternatives assessment can help avoid inaction! We don’t need to wait for absolute certainty (while continuing to expose people) before making a health protective change.

[Matt Fuchs @FuchsWriter]

Got talc?
It's in powders, pills and food. It's also at the center of cancer lawsuits.
Like other buzzed-about exposures, there's real reason for concern, some paranoia, and much we still don't know.
Here's how talc went from common comfort to controversy
https://t.co/sawSvv3yjs

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

I’m sharing an actual recent peer-to-peer call that shows what physicians and patients face when trying to get a surgery approved. This call felt as absurd as it sounds.

The peer-to-peer call was to advocate for surgery to prevent and treat lymphedema for a patient with breast cancer. Her risk is high and we can perform a surgery to lower it.

The doctors from the insurance company on the call were an ophthalmologist with a subspecialty in oculoplastic surgery and a plastic surgeon who currently has a cosmetic practice. Neither doctor has ever performed lymph venous bypass…the surgery I was trying to get approved for my patient.

Neither doctor would provide their name or license number.

At the conclusion of the call, the doctors told me that they didn’t have the power to make a determination or decision to perform the surgery. They were just there to inform me of United’s decision to deny it.

The Medical Decision was not up to the doctors on the call. It had already been made by United.

So here I am, appealing again.

Medical decisions should be made by doctors who are well informed and patient-centered. Patients deserve access to the care that they paid for with their premiums.

[Silent Spring Inst @SilentSpringIns]

"We know these chemicals are dangerous. We know their adverse health effects. The more we study them, the more problems we face. If anything, the science is stronger today that it was a year or two years ago.” - Linda Birnbaum, former director of NIEHS. https://t.co/emEl2DlPnr

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Do you know what have NEVER undergone randomised placebo controlled trials?

All those supplements they try and sell you online

[The Goldman Environmental Prize @goldmanprize]

💧 "The water that we believed was safe was in fact contaminated for many, many years with a class of tasteless, odorless chemicals called PFAS." —Laurene Allen, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from New Hampshire @pfasprojectnh

Discover Laurene's story: https://t.co/QwWmsRhTGX

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Nearly all of the remaining staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health were laid off Friday, multiple officials and laid-off employees told CBS News, gutting programs ranging from approvals of new safety equipment to firefighter health. https://t.co/8W4YbFDqA2

[The Goldman Environmental Prize @goldmanprize]

Laurene Allen is the 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner for North America! 🌎🏆

Laurene stepped up to protect thousands of New Hampshire families affected by contaminated drinking water, ending more than 20 years of air, soil, and water pollution.

👉 Learn more: https://t.co/QwWmsRirwv

[Kaley Beins, MPH @BeinsKaley]

@pfasprojectnh @goldmanprize Oh wow, Laurene! Congratulations! What a well deserved honor!

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.

Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.