Without any personal context, this stance appears very "baby meets bathwater". In particular, I'm not sure I see anything about this particular situation that renders it purely a problem of CS research. What makes other fields (presumably) immune or less predisposed to these kinds of issues?
Your position also paints CS in very broad strokes; in my experience, the only commonality between some subfields of computer science is that they use computers. Graphics, hardware architecture, programming languages, networks, and so on, are all essentially loosely coupled with their own organizing communities and directions. Some of these subfields are more closely tied to mathematics or electrical engineering than strictly to other parts of computer science. If there is an incurable "contagion" that afflicts all of these, I must admit it hard to believe that this contagion would not prove (if not already be proven) effective beyond the artificial confines of the term "computer science".
Your position also paints CS in very broad strokes; in my experience, the only commonality between some subfields of computer science is that they use computers. Graphics, hardware architecture, programming languages, networks, and so on, are all essentially loosely coupled with their own organizing communities and directions. Some of these subfields are more closely tied to mathematics or electrical engineering than strictly to other parts of computer science. If there is an incurable "contagion" that afflicts all of these, I must admit it hard to believe that this contagion would not prove (if not already be proven) effective beyond the artificial confines of the term "computer science".