Social semantics: how useful has group selection been?

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Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, background): “It is for this reason that (a) the group selection debate only takes place over simple models and has not stimulated empirical work, and (b) all the major developments in social evolution theory have been pioneered and led by the inclusive fitness approach, and not group selection (Section 2.2; West”
Evolution of the social contract (2014, background): “Some claim that the pro-altruism scholars have misinterpreted standard theory and have attacked a straw man [Binmore, 2005a, West et al., 2011, 2008], while others that there is insufficient empirical evidence that humans really are altruistic [Guala, 2012a, Burton-Chellew and West, 2013, Binmore,…”
Sanctions, Cooperation, and the Stability of Plant-Rhizosphere Mutualisms (2008, methodology): “For cooperation among microbes of the same species, we can apply the well-developed, but widely misunderstood, theory of kin selection (Griffin & West 2002, West et al. 2008).”