This essay at Edge touches on a few possible meanings for the term "group selection." Pinker argues that as a form of memetic theory it has no explanatory power, and that group selection for genes does not fit the evidence. He focuses on humans with some mention of insects that live in hives. So the essay doesn't seem surprising, but it does seem rather Hansonian.
He just says:
That is not good enough to rule out the groups of the "new" group selection - which would be an especially foolish thing to do anyway, considering that he specifically says he disagrees with that at the start of the essay:
Pinker's article is out of touch with the truth on the topic.
What are you trying to argue? Pinker's article says,
If you think that "new group selectionists" would agree with this, why call them that? The 'old' kind doesn't seem to have gone away, since you yourself cite articles explicitly arguing against them:
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