No, I was not on Granite Mountain last Saturday. I was sitting in an unmarked van with the engine idling just down the street from your house, like every Saturday.
I know nothing about acupuncture. Like the AMA, I have no experience with it. It's a several thousand year old practice that has apparently helped several people I know and trust, so I keep an open mind about it by default. If someone like MattP recounts being helped by acupuncture, who am I (or you, or anyone) to second guess him? What kind of weird, control-freak ego needs to re-write someone else's experience?
Western-Big-Bidness-medicine's long, sordid history of pushing dangerous drugs with catastrophic effect certainly calls into the question the sanctity of it's opinions and findings, however 'scientifically based' they are advertised to be.
As in everything, buyer beware.