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The "new" group selection (e.g. here, here and here) has been demonstrated to be pretty-much equivalent to the standard and uncontroversial inclusive fitness framwork in a raft of papers.
Here's Marek Kohn writing in 2008:
That's not to say that group selection is useless - since it involves different models and accounting methods.
There are still a few dissenters. E.g. Nowak, Tarnita and Wilson (2010) apparently disagree - saying:
These folk apparently don't grok the topic too well.